Episodes

  • 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.

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    48 mins
  • 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
    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
  • 283. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 2 - The Never-Ending Bank Holiday
    Jul 22 2025

    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.

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

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    35 mins
  • 282. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 1
    Jul 15 2025

    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

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    53 mins
  • 281. How Bitcoin Defunds The War Machine
    Jul 8 2025

    Saifedean joins Ben Wehrman to discuss how Bitcoin can bring peace by defunding the war machine.

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    2 hrs
  • 280. Can Bitcoin Rebuild Civilization?
    Jul 1 2025

    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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    52 mins
  • 279. Bitcoin and Tether: Las Vegas Keynote
    Jun 24 2025

    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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    45 mins