The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Saifedean joins Danny Knowles on What Bitcoin Did to discuss The Gold Standard : how fiat funded war and made endless conflict possible, why hard money shapes time preference, and why gold failed where Bitcoin can win.

Tom Woods interviews Saifedean about his latest book, The Gold Standard. https://saifedean.com/tgs

Our friend Tony Yazbeck rejoins us to tell us about bitcoin best practices, self-custody, and privacy.

In this interview, Saifedean talks with economist Juan Ramón Rallo about his book Principles of Economics , as well as the future of fiat money in the face of the rise of gold and Bitcoin.

Tristan Scott, founder of Daylight Computer, joins us to explore the philosophy behind distraction-free technology, the limits of current devices, and how rethinking hardware can help restore focus and mental clarity.

We’re joined by Balaji Srinivasan, entrepreneur and investor, to explore his ideas from The Network State : how technology is reshaping companies, communities, and currencies—and how it could also enable new cities and even new countries.

The final lecture of this course examines how bitcoin's fixed supply & censorship resistance upends the entire fiat monetary order, & explores how the two systems will interact over time. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free download. You can also take the rest of Sai...

Saifedean's talk at The Bitcoin Conference introducing his new book, The Gold Standard, followed by the introduction and chapter 1 of the book! Get your audiobook, hardcover, or paperback from TheSaifHouse.com or Amazon.com .

Saifedean discusses the main ideas of his new book, The Gold Standard, and his motivation for writing it, in this deep conversation with Robert Dewey of the Exploring Prosperity Podcast. https://saifedean.com/tgs

In this lecture delivered at the Property and Freedom Society, Saifedean explains why the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the denial of property rights. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere.

The Fiat Standard Lecture 17: Bitcoin Cost-Benefit Analysis explores bitcoin as an electricity-based savings tool, how the value stored exceeds security costs, and why declining supply growth increases monetary efficiency compared to fiat debasement. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes available fo...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 16: Bitcoin and Energy Markets discusses proof of work as a technological alternative to fiat’s political conflict, how miners seek zero-opportunity-cost energy globally, and why difficulty adjustment turns demand into network security. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 15: Bitcoin Banking explores why demand for deposits, secure storage, and capital allocation continues under a Bitcoin standard, how high cash reserves and self-custody limit bank risk, and why deposit banking and equity investment naturally separate without a lender of last resort. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS ,...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling shows why on-chain scaling has hard limits, why block space must remain scarce to preserve immutability, and how economic incentives push smaller payments to second layers. It also explores how the Lightning Network brings fast, cheap transactions to Bitcoin. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , wher...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This explains how Bitcoin compares to fiat & gold in salability across space, separates money & debt, ends credit monetization & allows a separation of money & state. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free download. You...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis calculates the minor benefits of fiat & compares them to its massive destructive effects: wealth erosion, distorted markets, political power grabs, endless wars, societal decay & more. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes available for...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States shows how fiat exports inflation via reserve currencies, swaps market discipline for IMF/World Bank debt traps, bailouts & central planning, limits capital flow, increases poverty & turns development into a misery industry. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lec...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels shows how fiat distorts energy markets replacing reliable hydrocarbons with subsidized unreliable expensive fiat fuels, rewards climate hysteria over engineering imperatives, increases poverty & compromises human flourishing. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lectur...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science shows how fiat centralizes education and research funding, removes real market feedback, produces meaningless research papers, politicizes science, entraps students in massive debt, and rewards hysteria over truth. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes availa...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food explains how fiat destroyed modern food, as governments optimize farming policy & nutritional guidelines to mask inflation, industrial sludge replaces meat & animal fats, cheap crops are subsidized, and soil & health suffer. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full l...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard money, restores savings, long-term vision, and civilization. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture no...

Fiat's superior salability across space enabled global adoption, financed governments, & entrenched fractional-reserve banks, at the cost of losing value across time. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free download.  You can also take the rest of Saifedean's courses by...

The Fiat Standard Lecture 5: Fiat Balances shows how fiat’s unquantifiable, irreconcilable, tentative, revocable, and negative balances kill saving, reward debt, and lock in servitude, unlike Bitcoin’s precise, irrevocable private-key control. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free...

Lecture 4 of The Fiat Standard explains how fiat is mined through credit creation, incentivizing everyone to get into debt, causing prices to rise, which is covered up with the nonsensical CPI. Saylor's explanation of prices as a vector is far better for understanding inflation. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also find t...

Lecture 3 of The Fiat Standard explains the underlying technology behind fiat: a centralized network where money is created from credit expansion, devaluing existing holders' wealth, externalizing default risk onto society, & undermining savings, trade, & capital accumulation. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS , where you can also...