The Bitcoin Standard Podcast – Details, episodes & 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 debasement.

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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.

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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.

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Independent journalist and researcher Jeremy Hammond joins to discuss the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and what it means for today's events.

References: 

• PalestineRemembered - https://www.palestineremembered.com/index.html 
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of The Mass Media By Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499 
• What Was the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and Why Is It Significant? -
  https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2017/11/02/what-was-the-balfour-declaration-of-1917-and-why-is-it-significant/
• The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel -
  https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2010/10/26/the-myth-of-the-u-n-creation-of-israel/
• The Rise of Hamas in Gaza -
  https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2010/01/20/the-rise-of-hamas-in-gaza/
• Jeremy Hammond's website - https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/ 
• Jeremy Hammond's books - https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/#books 
• Jeremy Hammond's Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/JeremyRHammond.page
• Jeremy Hammond's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyrhammond
• Jeremy Hammond's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyrhammond/

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We discussed the idea of scarcity, the only real restriction to production being human time, the reason why human action is so important and the ridiculousness of simplifying human beings so they are assumed to act the same. We also talked about the reason why energy is such an important part of economic life and how unemployment is really a fiat phenomenon.

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Crowdhealth CEO Andy Schoonover joins us to discuss Crowdhealth's continued growth and progress in disrupting fiat healthcare, including why they're introducing lightning payments!

References: 

• "The Yield From Money Held" Reconsidered - Hans Hermann Hoppe https://mises.org/library/yield-money-held-reconsidered 
• CrowdHealth website - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/ 

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Aleks Svetski joins the podcast to discuss Spirit of Satoshi, the new Bitcoin AI model.

References: 

• The Bitcoin Times -  https://bitcointimes.io/ 
• Uncommunist Manifesto, Aleks Svetski and Mark Moss - https://www.uncommunist.com/optin1642549665295 
• Spirit of Satoshi AI - https://www.spiritofsatoshi.ai/ 
• Aleks's Twitter - https://twitter.com/SvetskiWrites 

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Join Luke Gromen and Saifedean in a conversation unpacking the theory of dedollarization. They delve into the implications of negative real rates, the gold market, the impact of oil on the global economy, and potential future actions by the Federal Reserve.

References: 

• Luke's Twitter - https://twitter.com/LukeGromen 
• Luke's website, The Forest for The Trees - https://fftt-llc.com/ 

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Lyn Alden joins us to discuss her new best-selling book, Broken Money, available now in cloth hardcover from TheSaifHouse.com!

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This week's podcast is the full lecture 3 of the Principles of Economics online course, and its topic is Time! Find out why time is the ultimate resource and why all scarcity stems from the scarcity of time! Sign up to saifedean.com to study this online course, with a new lecture every 2 weeks and live discussion seminars!

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