In this episode, Saifedean invites his newsletter subscribers to join a Q&A seminar normally only available to Saifedean.com members. He answers questions on whether money and debt are the same, whether bitcoin whales or “monopolists” will gain too much power on the free market, the impact of energy trends on bitcoin mining, and the risks of holding bitcoin on an exchange. Participants also share their personal stories about how reading The Bitcoin Standard changed their life by lowering their time preference and allowing them to save for the future.

Resources

The Myth of the Myth of Barter by George Selgin
Have Anthropologists Overturned Menger? By Bob Murphy
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein for discussion of our inability to run society with unreliable energy
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Mises Institute article about The Myth of Natural Monopoly
Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella
Saifedean’s first book, The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean’s second book, The Fiat Standard

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THE BITCOIN STANDARD TOOLKIT/SPONSORS

NYDIG - https://nydig.com

Cyphersafe - https://cyphersafe.io/

OKCoin - https://okcoin.com/

Nodl - https://www.nodl.it/

Coldcard - https://coldcardwallet.com/

CoinBits App - https://coinbitsapp.com/

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