#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:53)
- Money (20:58) - Gold standard (34:09) - Collective hallucination
(39:59) - Austrian vs Keynesian economics (1:12:20) - Free market
(1:28:49) - Monarchy (1:34:23) - Fiat money (2:21:13) - SWIFT
system (2:34:03) - Bitcoin (2:40:20) - Satoshi Nakamoto (2:48:04) -
Criticisms of Bitcoin (3:03:16) - Football/soccer (3:06:58) -
Criticisms of Bitcoin continued (3:17:17) - Bitcoin Maximalism
(3:29:40) - Proof of stake (3:46:46) - Central bank digital
currency (3:57:59) - Michael Malice (4:00:12) - Advice for young
people (4:06:21) - Palestine (4:18:00) - Mortality