The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
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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 stories of Rai stones, glass beads & seashells illustrate the dange...
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 governments compete for citizens & enabled free trade & self-deter...
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; why the latter property, expressed through hardness, is the critical fea...
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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: how Bitcoin started, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and ...
