The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Lecture 3 in The Bitcoin Standard explains how primitive moneys gained and lost their value, why difficulty of production was essential to their monetary role & how the stories of Rai stones, glass beads & seashells illustrate the dangers of easy money. 🔗👇🏼 Sponsors BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/ CrowdHealth: The Bitcoiner’s answer to fiat health insurance. Get your first 3 months for $99/month with code SAIF at...

At the Property & Freedom Society, Saifedean presents his latest book, The Gold Standard, an alternative history of the 20th century where hard money ended WWI, made governments compete for citizens & enabled free trade & self-determination. Sponsors: BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/ CrowdHealth: The Bitcoiner’s answer to fiat health insurance. Get your first 3 months for $99/month with code SAIF at https://jo...

Lecture 2 in The Bitcoin Standard explains the problem money solves, how the solution shapes the desirable properties of money: salability across scales, space & time; why the latter property, expressed through hardness, is the critical feature of money & how it can be measured. Join the live discussion seminar on Twitter/X Spaces on Tuesday October 27 at 2pm GMT. Follow @saifedean on Twitter to be sure to join. BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up...

Starting this week, Saifedean will be sharing a new online course on The Bitcoin Standard, revisiting the book almost 10 years on. This first lecture covers the prologue: how Bitcoin started, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money. BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/ CrowdHealth: The Bitcoiner’s answer to fiat health insurance. Get your first 3 months for $99/month with code SAIF at https://joi...

Throwback to Saifedean's 2018 launch of The Bitcoin Standard with his first book talk, held in Vienna, fittingly enough! BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/