59. Bitcoin: The Most Islamic Form of Money? with Harris Irfan

59. Bitcoin: The Most Islamic Form of Money? with Harris Irfan

In today’s episode Saifedean talks to former investment banker and author of Heaven’s Bankers, Harris Irfan. They discuss Harris’ decades of experiences in Islamic finance and what sparked his interest in bitcoin as a Muslim. Harris explains why bitcoin might be the most sharia-compatible money, why the decentralized nature of bitcoin should be appealing to Muslims, and what Islamic scholars get wrong about bitcoin. We then discuss whether a hard free market money like bitcoin would make fina...

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295. The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling

295. The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling

The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling shows why on-chain scaling has hard limits, why block space must remain scarce to preserve immutability, and how economic incentives push smaller payments...

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294. The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This

294. The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This

The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This explains how Bitcoin compares to fiat & gold in salability across space, separates money & debt, ends credit monetization & allows a separation of ...

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293. The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis

293. The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis

The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis calculates the minor benefits of fiat & compares them to its massive destructive effects: wealth erosion, distorted markets, political power gr...

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292. The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States

292. The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States

The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States shows how fiat exports inflation via reserve currencies, swaps market discipline for IMF/World Bank debt traps, bailouts & central planning, limits capital fl...

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291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels

291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels

The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels shows how fiat distorts energy markets replacing reliable hydrocarbons with subsidized unreliable expensive fiat fuels, rewards climate hysteria over engineeri...

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290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science

290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science

The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science shows how fiat centralizes education and research funding, removes real market feedback, produces meaningless research papers, politicizes science, entraps st...

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289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food

289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food

The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food explains how fiat destroyed modern food, as governments optimize farming policy & nutritional guidelines to mask inflation, industrial sludge replaces meat & ani...

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288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life

288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life

The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard mo...

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