The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

The Bitcoin Standard podcast is releasing a recording of the weekly saifedean.com discussion seminar. The seminar is open to learners on saifedean.com, and focuses on discussing the material of the courses, as well as a broader discussion of Bitcoin, Austrian economics, and various current affairs.

387 episodes The Bitcoin Standard Podcast Updated 2026-05-16
387 episodes in The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
2021-04-19

49. Can electric cars save the planet?

We discuss the economics of electric cars, and what the heavy subsidies …
2021-04-16

48. The oportunity cost of fiat

In this seminar, we apply the economic way of thinking to figure out the…
2021-04-13

47. Fiat food

In this episode we discuss the link between fiat money and fiat food, ba…
2021-04-11

Guest Episode on Tom Woods Show: Bitcoin, Present and Future

I joined Tom Woods to discuss current trends in Bitcoin, whether it’s in…
2021-04-08

46. Debate: are precious metals being demonetized?

Peter Young hosts a debate between Saifedean and gold investor Mark Vale…
2021-04-05

45. Bitcoin's energy consumption

We discuss the economics of energy, based on the chapter on the topic in…
2021-04-02

44. The economics of banning bitcoin

We look at the economic problems of cracking down on bitcoin, and how th…
2021-03-29

43. Bitcoin and market efficiency

Are markets efficient? How do we think of this question from an Austrian…
2021-03-25

Debating Professor Hanke on Bitcoin's value

Professor Steve Hanke has many decades of experience studying currencies…
2021-03-22

42. The Fiat Standard, Chapters 4-7

In this seminar we discuss chapters 4 to 7 from my book The Fiat Standar…
2021-03-18

41. Can bitcoin obsolete bonds?

As insurance industry giants begin to enter the bitcoin space, we discus…
2021-03-14

40. Dr. Shawn Baker on Meat, Fiat Foods, and Bitcoin

This week we host the poster child for carbohydrate deficiency, carnivor…
2021-03-09

39. The Shitcoin Standard

This week we discuss: What are shitcoins good for? Can shitcoins help bi…
2021-03-04

38. Bitcoin and fiat debt

Should you borrow fiat to buy bitcoin? Is it better to sell bitcoin or b…
2021-02-27

37. Art on The Bitcoin Standard

In this seminar we are joined by Stephen Chow, founder of Chow Art Fund,…
2021-02-24

36. Michael Saylor, stock-to-flow, and praxeology

In this podcast we discussed last week seminar with Microstrategy CEO Mi…
2021-02-16

34. Michael Saylor on The Fiat Standard

We are rejoined by Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor, who has read the fi…
2021-02-10

33. Stock-to-flow: a deeper look

In this seminar, we look closely at the concept of stock-to-flow, compar…
2021-02-07

32. Anarchy in Health

How would the free market have handled a respiratory illness? After a ye…
2021-02-02

31. In Defense of Deflation with Philipp Bagus

This week we host Philipp Bagus, the economist who wrote the definitive …
2021-01-30

30. Gamestop, deflation, and Q&A

In this week's seminar we discuss reddit's attack on hedge funds by buyi…
2021-01-29

29. Entrepreneurship in the Austrian tradition, with Per Bylund

We are joined by Austrian-school economist Per Bylund to discuss entrepr…
2021-01-26

28. Intellectual Property & Patents with Stephan Kinsella and Jed Grant

Stephan is a patent autorney and Libertarian scholar, from whom I’ve lea…
2021-01-22

27. The Underlying Technology Behind Fiat Standard

Saifedean discusses chapters 3 and 4 of The Fiat Standard with subscribe…