The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
Saifedean's The Bitcoin Standard Podcast is the place to discuss Bitcoin and economics from the Austrian school's perspective. Listen to the weekly saifedean.com discussion seminar, where a group of learners from all over the world discuss the website's online courses, as well as a wide variety of economic, political, and social issues, and occasionally host special guests for the discussion. The podcast also includes the most interesting interviews conducted with Saifedean on other shows.
Episodes
338 episodes
301. The Gold Standard Preview
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.co...
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1:24:35
300. The Gold Standard Launch Interview with Bob Dewey
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://saifede...
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1:34:01
299. Property Rights: The Root of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
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 his...
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40:42
298. The Fiat Standard Lecture 17: Bitcoin Cost-Benefit Analysis
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 debas...
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297. The Fiat Standard Lecture 16: Bitcoin and Energy Markets
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...
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1:17:44
296. The Fiat Standard Lecture 15: Bitcoin Banking
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 equi...
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1:07:08
295. The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling
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 ...
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294. The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This
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...
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293. The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis
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 & ...
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292. The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States
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 develo...
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1:04:42
291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels
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 & comp...
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1:15:11
290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science
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...
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1:22:49
289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food
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...
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288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life
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 vis...
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49:47
287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?
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 ...
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286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery
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.<...
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49:56
285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining
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 ...
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1:03:31
284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology
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 sa...
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43:25
283. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 2 - The Never-Ending Bank Holiday
This is Lecture 2 of Saifedean's online course The Fiat Standard, based on his book by the same name. The course began last week and will include all 18 lectures.You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages...
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282. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 1
Starting this week, Saifedean will be sharing the full 18 lectures of his online course The Fiat Standard, based on his book by the same name. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on
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281. How Bitcoin Defunds The War Machine
Saifedean joins Ben Wehrman to discuss how Bitcoin can bring peace by defunding the war machine.Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online learning platform to take part in weekly podcast seminars, access Saifedean’s four
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2:01:17
280. Can Bitcoin Rebuild Civilization?
Saifedean joins Robert Breedlove at the Bitcoin Las Vegas 2025 conference for a wide-ranging discussion on Austrian economics, time preference, morality, fiat money, and the future of civilization.Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's o...
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279. Bitcoin and Tether: Las Vegas Keynote
Saifedean's keynote talk at the Bitcoin Conference, discussing whether Tether can save the dollar. Also included is an interview with Natalie Brunell at the conference.Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online learning platform to ta...
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