The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

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.

411 episodes The Bitcoin Standard Podcast Updated 2026-10-20
411 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…