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
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, where you can also find the full lecture ...
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.
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 free download.
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 lecture notes available for free downloa...
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 lecture notes available for free download.
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 available for free download.
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 lecture notes available for free downl...
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 notes available for free download.
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.
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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 download.
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 the full lecture notes available for f...
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 find the full lecture notes available...
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 on saifedean.com/TFS, where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free download.
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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 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 signing up to a membership on saifedean.com/membership
Saifedean joins Ben Wehrman to discuss how Bitcoin can bring peace by defunding the war machine.
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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.
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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.
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Khalil Sayegh is the founder of the Agora Initiative, and a Gazan who lost family and friends in the Gaza genocide.
The Agora Initiative: https://theagorainitiative.org/
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Lyn Alden, author of Broken Money, discusses the US fiscal situation and bitcoin.
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Jack Mallers is the CEO of Strike and XXI.
Strike's published financials: https://x.com/Strike/status/1915446080512180502
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