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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Dr. Saifedean Ammous

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Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 372

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.

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237. Peter St. Onge

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 02:13:28

Economist Peter St Onge joins to give us his perspective on a wide range of economic issues, from gold and bitcoin to fertility to government financing.

Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online learning platform to take part in weekly podcast seminars, access Saifedean’s four online economics courses, and read his writing, including his new book, Principles of Economics! Find out more on Saifedean.com!

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236. CFA and Bitcoin with Rajat Soni

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 • Duration 01:17:19

Rajat Soni is a CFA who read The Bitcoin Standard and became a bitcoiner, which caused him some trouble with the CFA Institute. He joins to discuss his transformation and why the investment industry may not like bitcoin.

Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online learning platform to take part in weekly podcast seminars, access Saifedean’s four online economics courses, and read his writing, including his new book, Principles of Economics! Find out more on Saifedean.com!

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227. Gaza Genocide with Dan Cohen

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 • Duration 01:49:36

Dan Cohen is an independent journalist and filmmaker who joins us to discuss his travels in Palestine and his work on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

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Killing Gaza Documentary - https://killinggaza.com/
Latest documentary on Haiti - https://youtu.be/LO6CMvSP2rw?si=Awch5mfdkV1XgtXC

Enjoyed this episode? Join Saifedean's online learning platform to take part in weekly podcast seminars, access Saifedean’s four online economics courses, and read his writing, including his new book, Principles of Economics! Find out more on Saifedean.com!

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137. Clown Continent

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 • Duration 01:06:04

What on earth is going on in Europe and how did things get so bad? In this seminar, we discuss the double calamity of skyrocketing energy costs and plummeting pensions and currencies. While high time preference fiat media obsesses over the latest scapegoats, we look into the long-term drivers of these two problems: Decades of green hysteria leading to dismantling of reliable power sources & underinvestment in reliable power generation. And decades of Keynesian dogma convincing the people whose pensions are being destroyed their government can pay for everything at no cost. Does the UK really need to spend 10% of its GDP on public healthcare? What exactly is it about medical care that makes it have to be so expensive and always getting more expensive? Could it be the endless government financing? How bad would truly private healthcare be really?

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Michael Shellenberger on German Nuclear Power Plants
Michael Shellenberger on German gas production
Alex Epstein on Europe's Energy Suicide
Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Surgery Center of Oklahoma's Keith Smith discusses his business model on EconTalk
Keith Smith's blog
Saifedean’s first book, The Bitcoin Standard.
Saifedean’s second book, The Fiat Standard.

You can take part in podcast seminars, access Saifedean’s courses – including his ongoing course ECO22: The Fiat Standard – and read chapters of his forthcoming book, Principles of Economics, by becoming a Saifedean.com member. Find out more .

136. Starfish Publishing with Niko Laamanen

Saturday, October 22, 2022 • Duration 01:09:52

Niko Laamanen, founder of Konsensus Network, joins us to discuss bitcoin publishing and his company's decentralized “starfish” organizational model. He explains how reading The Bitcoin Standard led him to found the world’s first bitcoin-only publishing house and how he harnessed an international network of volunteers to publish over 40 bitcoin titles in ten languages. He and Saifedean also discuss Niko’s journey with Austrian Economics, the importance of hodling bitcoin and work being done to support bitcoin adoption in Madeira.

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Niko on Twitter.
Konsensus Network on Twitter.
Konsensus Network blog.
The Bitcoin Whitepaper.
See Konsensus Network’s website for titles referenced during the conversation including Layered Money, The Price of Tomorrow, Choose Life, Bitcoin: Everything divided by 21 million and The Starfish and The Spider.
Saifedean’s first book, The Bitcoin Standard.
Saifedean’s second book, The Fiat Standard.

Enjoyed this episode? You can take part in podcast seminars, access Saifedean’s courses – including his ongoing course ECO22: The Fiat Standard – and read chapters of his forthcoming books by becoming a Saifedean.com member. Find out more here.

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135. Cholesterol Con with Malcolm Kendrick

Monday, October 17, 2022 • Duration 02:16:31

Does high cholesterol really cause heart disease? Is there such as thing as “good” and “bad” cholesterol? What impact do statins – the most profitable drug in the history of medicine – have on human health? In this episode, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, author of The Great Cholesterol Con and The Clot Thickens, joins us to challenge the conventional wisdom on cholesterol. He shares his view on the diet-heart hypothesis, his intriguing alternative explanation for heart disease, and what he recommends to maintain a healthy heart. We also discuss how and why fiat medicine and economics have many “endlessly adaptable hypotheses" that refuse to die no matter how much reality assaults them.

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Dr Kendrick on Twitter.
Dr Kendrick’s website.
Dr Kendrick’s books: The Great Cholesterol Con, Doctoring Data and The Clot Thickens
European cardiovascular disease statistics 2008 edition showing lower cardiovascular disease prevalence in countries with higher saturated fat in the diet. For more on this topic, see this blog post by Dr Kendrick.
Website of the International Network of Cholesterol Sceptics
Dr Kendrick's blog post on Carl von Rokitansky and Rudolf Virchow and the 1852 explanation of heart disease.
Saifedean’s first book, The Bitcoin Standard.
Saifedean’s second book, The Fiat Standard.

Enjoyed this episode? You can take part in podcast seminars, access Saifedean’s courses – including his ongoing course – and read chapters of his forthcoming books by becoming a Saifedean.com member. Find out more .

134. Praxeology in One Lesson with Conza

Monday, October 10, 2022 • Duration 02:08:49

What is praxeology and why does it matter? In this episode, Conza, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Australia, joins us to discuss the theoretical foundations of economics. He explains why praxeology – the science of human action – provides the value-free framework needed to reason about economic questions, and how its method differs from that of physical sciences such as biology. He and Saifedean discuss how praxeology can be used to analyse topics such as minimum wage, inflation and pandemics, and why the contrasting methods used by quantitative macroeconomists are flawed. They also defend Hoppe's argumentation ethics: a proof that arguing against the Non-Aggression Principle is logically incoherent.

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Conza on Twitter.
Conza’s blog (where all the best economics quotes live).
Conza’s YouTube channel.
Website of the Austrian Mises Seminar.
Mises Wiki article on Mises’ Regression Theorem
BBC video on minimum wage being ‘a hurdle’ for disabled people.
Theory and History by Ludwig von Mises
Konrad Graf’s paper on Action-based Jurisprudence (see page 29 for Graf’s proposed model of praxeology).
Konrad Graf’s lectures on bitcoin.
Economic Science and the Austrian Method by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
The Beef Initiative website.
For a biography of the life of John Maynard Keynes see by Murray Rothbard.

133. Bitcoin Banks with Caitlin Long

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 • Duration 01:58:59

Wall Street veteran and founder of Custodia Bank Caitlin Long joins us to discuss bitcoin banks, leverage and the macroeconomy. She explains how new “dollar and digital asset banks” like Custodia Bank are helping to bridge the gap between bitcoin and the US dollar, and why she has chosen to seek regulation rather than bypass it. She and Saifedean discuss financial leverage, its impact on bitcoin’s price and why people should be wary of companies promising risk-free yield on bitcoin. The conversation also covers recent developments in financial markets, including rising bond yields and the fall in the British pound. In the Q&A, Caitlin answers questions on Chinese inflation, stablecoin velocity and whether the path to hyperbitcoinization will be orderly.

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Caitlin Forbes article introducing dollar and digital asset banks.
The Institutional Risk Analyst article on The Narrow Bank case against the Federal Reserve.
Explanation of Wyoming Special Purpose Depository Institutions by government of Wyoming.
Jameson Lopp tweet about not helping people to buy bitcoin.
Saifedean and Tone Vays debate Celsius’ business model with Alex Mashinsky in 2019.
Nik Bhatia article explaining the concept of the Lightning Network Reference Rate (risk-free rate).
Mises Wiki article on the Plaza Accord and relationship to monetary expansion in Japan.
When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson

132. Expat Life with Mikkel Thorup

Monday, September 26, 2022 • Duration 01:55:54

Mikkel Thorup, founder and CEO of Expat Money, joins us to make the case for becoming an expat. He discusses why people should consider moving their life offshore, which jurisdictions are most appealing and strategies listeners can pursue to mitigate tax obligations. Mikkel shares practical tips on finding quality healthcare, educating children, travelling comfortably and managing international finances. He also outlines his views on flag theory, the importance of geographical diversity in investment and the libertarian values that motivate him.

Resources

Saifedean’s viral tweet on "free" healthcare in Canada.
Website of Mikkel’s Expat International School of Freedom and Entrepreneurship.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford teaches people how to make cheesecake during lockdown.
The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice by Michael Strong
Website of Mikkel’s Expat Money Summit taking place in November.
Mikkel’s recommended charter flight service Villiers Jets.
Saifedean’s first book, The Bitcoin Standard.
Saifedean’s second book, The Fiat Standard.

131. Adventures in Late Stage Fiat: Russia with Lana Nagornaia

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 • Duration 01:20:05

How have Russians dealt with being getting kicked off the fiat dollar network? We are joined by Russian economist and investment advisor Lana Nagornaia to discuss the monetary ramifications of US sanctions from a Russian perspective. Why has the rouble risen versus the dollar in spite of sanctions? Can this be expected to last, or will it reverse? What alternatives are Russians using for trading with the rest of the world? Will Russia switch to a gold standard? Can it trade gold internationally while sanctioned by the global gold market? Can a Chinese-Russian fiat alternative to the dollar succeed? Lana also explains how life in Russia has changed since the outbreak of war, how global energy markets have been affected and how bitcoin could play a role in bringing about a world of sanction-free trade.

References

Lana Invest official website.
Lana on Instagram.
London Bullion Market Association suspends Russian gold and silver refiners.
Moscow Times article on how Russian gold is being rerouted to China.
Al Jazeera article on unofficial ban on Russian gold.
Reuters article on Russians rushing to buy Chinese yuan.
Saifedean’s first book, The Bitcoin Standard.
Saifedean’s second book, The Fiat Standard.

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