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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

By: Dr. Saifedean Ammous
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 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.© 2025 The Bitcoin Standard Podcast Economics Personal Finance
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  • 286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery

    286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery
    Aug 12 2025

    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.

    You can also take the rest of Saifedean's courses by signing up to a membership on saifedean.com/membership
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    48 mins
  • 285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining

    285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining
    Aug 5 2025

    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 free download.

    You can also take the rest of Saifedean's courses by signing up to a membership on saifedean.com/membership
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology

    284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology
    Jul 29 2025

    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 for free download.

    You can also take the rest of Saifedean's courses by signing up to a membership on saifedean.com/membership
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    42 mins
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