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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351. What Is Money? Debating MMTers
The Doha Debates hosts Saifedean to debate the nature of money with two MMT economists, Jason Hickel and Pavlina Tcherneva.
Many thanks to the Doha Debates for hosting t
Nov 10 2 h 33 min
350. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Lecture 3: Primitive Moneys
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 s
Nov 3 35 min
349. The Gold Standard - Presented at the Property & Freedom Society
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 gove
Oct 27 37 min
348. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Lecture 2: Money
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; wh
Oct 20 41 min
347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture
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:
Oct 13 34 min
346. The Bitcoin Standard 2018 Launch
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
Oct 6 1 h 38 min
345. Bitcoin, Mining, and Stablecoins
Saifedean is hosted by Bitcoin Magazine TV to discuss his recent work on Bitcoin mining and stablecoins, as well as the US fiscal outlook.
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Sep 29 33 min
344. Can Stablecoins Save the Dollar?
Saifedean examines whether growing stablecoin demand can reduce price inflation & help US fiscal solvency. He focuses on often-overlooked trade-offs: lost seigniorage, di
Sep 22 1 h 02 min
343. Bitcoin Electricity Consumption May Have Peaked
Saifedean argues bitcoin mining electricity consumption and capital expenditure may have peaked, and presents the argument as a testable hypothesis, and discusses the lon
Sep 15 30 min
342. Hardware Wallets: Security or Liability
Saifedean hosts a debate between JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco on whether hardware wallets are a security liability. They discuss the Cold Card entropy backdoor, multi-
Sep 8 2 h 26 min
341. Bitcoin Custody with Ben Westgate & BTC Pavao
Saifedean talks to Ben Westgate and @BtCPavao about how to store bitcoin safely with Bitcoin Core and an old laptop, generating and backing up keys, the problems with BIP
Sep 1 1 h 44 min
340. Fiat, gold & bitcoin: Interview with Mark Moss.
Saifedean joins Mark Moss to discuss how fiat money and central banking are destroying people's ability to build wealth, why Bitcoin beats gold as a store of value,
Aug 25 1 h 07 min
339. DIY Bitcoin with HAC
Bitcoiner HAC invites us to rethink Bitcoin hardware from scratch. What does a signing device actually do and can you do it yourself? He makes the case for why DIY Bitcoi
Aug 18 1 h 10 min
338. How Gold Could Have Gone Global - The Gold Standard Audiobook, Chapter 9
Saifedean reads Chapter 9 of his latest book, The Gold Standard, in which the world gets a decentralized and censorship-resistant international gold clearance system that
Aug 11 44 min
337. ColdCard Hack & Seedsigner with Seed
Founder of the Seedsigner open source project joins us to discuss the Coldcard hack, how the Seedsigner works, and the advantages of open source solutions.
Seedsigner we
Aug 4 1 h 28 min
IMPORTANT ColdCard SECURITY UPDATE
Important security update for anyone using a COLDCARD.
There has been a serious vulnerability disclosed involving the randomness used by some COLDCARD devices when gener
Aug 2 6 min
336. Rothbard at 100 Conference: Talks by Ammous, Hoppe, Kinsella & de Mombynes
Description: Four talks from Rothbard's centenary celebration last month in Porto:
Ammous: Rothbard on Palestine
Hoppe: Hurdles, Obstacles, and Surprises on the Ro
Jul 28 1 h 54 min
335. Bitcoin & the Surveillance State with Cory Klippsten
Cory Klippsten, founder and CEO of Swan, joins us to discuss the accelerating surveillance state, why bitcoin is the alternative to the left and right, and why stablecoin
Jul 21 1 h 11 min
334. Principles of Economics Lecture 18: Civilization
The final lecture of Principles of Economics makes the case for civilization, how it emerges when reason restrains instinct & lowers time preference, enabling capital acc
Jul 14 1 h 04 min
333. The Fiat Trap with Nicolas Cary
Saifedean joins Nick Carey to discuss money as a civilizational force: why mainstream economics has an inflation blind spot, how banks "mine" fiat through credit creation
Jul 7 53 min
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I have learned more about the true nature of money and the economy from Safe’s books and podcast, than I did from college economics classes. Listen to what he says, and what his guests say. It will ring true to you, based on what you actually see in the world. Your brain will explode when you put all the pieces together.
desertmom2020 · May 2023
What a wonderful podcast. I spend a great deal of time trying to imagine the future of the world on a bitcoin standard. It is a difficult exercise to imagine how we get there and ultimately what it will look like. Saifedean is revealing these things through his podcast: it will happen topic by topic, realm by realm. He is showing us in podcast by podcast that it will happen brick by brick.
Dutchladle · Aug 2022
If you want to learn economics and Bitcoin Saifedean is a great professor! He is an elite education on Austrian economics and Bitcoin - @AnHonestNode
AnHonestNode · Apr 2026
I actually love Saif and his books (Principles of Economics is outstanding). Unfortunately the show has been bending heavily towards the conflict in Palestine which is understandable as Saif is Palestinian - I likely would be emotionally charged about this as well if I was in his position. And this post is making no value judgment about the issue, but the show has become much less enjoyable with the constant emotional interjections about Israel and Palestine and the US’s involvement. It has begun to really take away from the show content - hopefully Saif can make a secondary podcast focusing on this issue and keep this one fenced in about economics and BtC.
Trey in NC · Jul 2024
After reading the book and now listening to the podcast I can’t get rid of the feeling that the host lives in a very narrow world and is using Bitcoin and his guests only as a vehicle to repeatedly promote his personal political agenda rather than being informative in a useful way.
zzkini · Dec 2021
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