The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Saifedean presents the Misesian case against Israel, and argues the only way to understand the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is that it is the result of the denial of property rights for Palestinians based purely on their not belonging to the ruling ethnoreligious group.Full Article: https://saifedean.substack.com/p/property-rights-the-root-cause-ofArticle on X: https://x.com/saifedean/status/1987845360484520258

15th lecture of Principles of Economics explores monetary expansion as the issuance of credit unbacked by savings, how it distorts interest rates and misallocates capital, why this generates the business cycle, Mises' money typology & how central banks are central planners of capital markets.Get all course notes and slides on https://saifedean.com/poecourse

Saifedean reads the text of his new article on Argentina's Javier Milei experiment, and also reads the text of his tribute to Murray Rothbard, to be published in Rothbard At 100: A Tribute and Assessment, a collection of essays edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Stephan Kinsella celebrating Rothbard's centenary, available for preorder now from The Saif HouseRothbard at 100: Hardcover – Preorder: https://academy.saifedean.com/product/rothbard-at-100-hardcover/

Fourteenth lecture of Principles of Economics explores credit and banking as the institutions that channel savings into investment, how commodity credit emerges from real savings, while circulation credit comes from money creation, why interest rates reflect time preference, and whether interest can be eliminated with hard money.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Saifedean makes the case for bitcoin as apolar money, the only workable alternative to a government global reserve currency and a unipolar world order, and how geopolitical developments underscore this role.

Thirteenth lecture of Principles of Economics explores time preference as the rate at which individuals discount the future, how property rights and hard money reduce uncertainty and lower time preference, enabling saving and investment, and why the progressive lowering of time preference is the driving force behind capital accumulation and the process of civilization.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Twelfth lecture of Principles of Economics explores capitalism as the system of private ownership of capital goods, how free capital markets allocate resources to their most productive uses through profit and loss, why economic calculation requires private property, and why socialism fails without it.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourseSponsors:Crowdhealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/Daylight - The computer, de-invented - https://daylightcomputer.com/CoinKite - Bitcoin Security and Fun Devices - https://coinkite.shop/bitcoinstandardTheBitcoinWay - TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE https://www.thebitcoinway.com/The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - https://TheSaifHouse.com

Eleventh lecture of Principles of Economics explains how individual preferences coordinate production and consumption decisions through economic calculation based on property rights, and why consumer sovereignty drives entrepreneurial decisions in the market order.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Tenth lecture of Principles of Economics explores money as the most salable good, how it emerges from trade, solves the coincidence-of-wants problem, enables calculation and specialization, preserves value across time, and why hardness matters more than quantity.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Trump’s Three-Card-Monte Takes on the Chess Grandmasters This is a full reading of Saifedean's article analyzing one month of the Iran War and its likely political and economic consequences.https://x.com/saifedean/status/2038250120890769859https://saifedean.substack.com/p/escalating-from-suez-to-waterloo

Ninth lecture of Principles of Economics explores trade as voluntary exchange that benefits all parties, explaining subjective valuation, absolute and comparative advantage, and how specialization and the division of labor raise productivity, cooperation, and civilization.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Eighth lecture of Principles of Economics examines energy and power as essential drivers of production, showing how abundant energy, especially hydrocarbons, raises productivity, expands trade and living standards, and helps explain prosperity, freedom, and the decline of slavery.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Seventh lecture of Principles of Economics explores technology as non-scarce knowledge that raises productivity and drives long-term growth, explaining why innovation creates new work instead of destroying it, and examining the economic arguments surrounding intellectual property.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Sixth lecture of Principles of Economics explores capital as saved resources that lengthen production to raise productivity, showing how time preference governs saving and interest, why capital is costly and fragile (depreciation, risk, destruction), and how capital accumulation drives higher living standards.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Fifth lecture of Principles of Economics explains property as the only workable solution to the problem of scarcity, how ownership prevents conflict, the logic of self-ownership, and how secure property rights enable saving, capital formation, peaceful cooperation & civilizational advance.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Fourth lecture of Principles of Economics explores labor as the sacrifice of leisure for future gain, explaining disutility, production and productivity, how wages reflect marginal output, why work never disappears, and how voluntary labor and capital raise the value of human time.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Third lecture of Principles of Economics examines time as the ultimate scarce resource, showing how all human action unfolds across time, why opportunity cost exists, how time preference shapes choices, and how economizing time drives production, saving, and civilization.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Saifedean debates Peter Schiff on gold, bitcoin, and the future of money, during the PlanB Conference in San Salvador!

Second lecture of Principles of Economics course explores value as a subjective judgment existing only in the consciousness of humans, how scarcity forces economizing, and how marginal utility determines choices and valuations of goods.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Starting this week, I'm releasing all the lectures of my Principles of Economics online course for free! This week's lecture explores economics as the study of human action and choice under scarcity, how humans act purposefully with deliberative reason, and why proper economic reasoning is based on understanding human action.Get all course notes and slides on saifedean.com/poecourse

Saifedean joins Danny Knowles on What Bitcoin Did to discuss The Gold Standard: how fiat funded war and made endless conflict possible, why hard money shapes time preference, and why gold failed where Bitcoin can win.

Tom Woods interviews Saifedean about his latest book, The Gold Standard.https://saifedean.com/tgs

Our friend Tony Yazbeck rejoins us to tell us about bitcoin best practices, self-custody, and privacy.

In this interview, Saifedean talks with economist Juan Ramón Rallo about his book Principles of Economics, as well as the future of fiat money in the face of the rise of gold and Bitcoin.

Tristan Scott, founder of Daylight Computer, joins us to explore the philosophy behind distraction-free technology, the limits of current devices, and how rethinking hardware can help restore focus and mental clarity.

We’re joined by Balaji Srinivasan, entrepreneur and investor, to explore his ideas from The Network State: how technology is reshaping companies, communities, and currencies—and how it could also enable new cities and even new countries.

The final lecture of this course examines how bitcoin's fixed supply & censorship resistance upends the entire fiat monetary order, & explores how the two systems will interact over 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.You can also take the rest of Saifedean's courses by signing up to a membership on saifedean.com/membership

Saifedean's talk at The Bitcoin Conference introducing his new book, The Gold Standard, followed by the introduction and chapter 1 of the book! Get your audiobook, hardcover, or paperback from TheSaifHouse.com or Amazon.com.

Saifedean discusses the main ideas of his new book, The Gold Standard, and his motivation for writing it, in this deep conversation with Robert Dewey of the Exploring Prosperity Podcast.https://saifedean.com/tgs

In this lecture delivered at the Property and Freedom Society, Saifedean explains why the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the denial of property rights. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere.

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.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

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.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

The Fiat Standard Lecture 15: Bitcoin Banking explores why demand for deposits, secure storage, and capital allocation continues under a Bitcoin standard, how high cash reserves and self-custody limit bank risk, and why deposit banking and equity investment naturally separate without a lender of last resort.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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.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!The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - TheSaifHouse.com

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.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!The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - TheSaifHouse.com

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.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!The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - TheSaifHouse.com