63. Bitcoin efficiency and cost-benefit analysis

63. Bitcoin efficiency and cost-benefit analysis

We often hear bitcoin is a waste, but rarely will someone present a full accounting of all the costs and the benefits associated with bitcoin. In this seminar, based on a chapter from upcoming The Fiat Standard, Saifedean attempts a full accounting of the costs that go into making bitcoin work, from electricity to infrastructure, and compares them to the benefits bitcoin provides: appreciating savings, money transfer, and most importantly, obsoleting fiat money, with its massive costs. We est...

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143. Macro Myths with Coinbits' Rowais Hanna

143. Macro Myths with Coinbits' Rowais Hanna

Rowais Hanna operates Coinbits' Twitter account, and has used it to publish fascinating in-depth investigations into the common myths of modern macroeconomics. He joins us to discuss the Consumer Pric...

22 Nov 20222h 6min

142. Why Bitcoin Miners Get Rekt

142. Why Bitcoin Miners Get Rekt

Why are so many bitcoin miners going bankrupt? We discuss the economics of bitcoin mining, how the difficulty adjustment works, why it makes bitcoin mining a zero sum game, and why it ensures bitcoin ...

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141. FTX: Beyond Ponzi

141. FTX: Beyond Ponzi

Join us as we take a close look at the amazing series of events in a week in which FTX went from being one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, to being exposed as a fraudulent ponzi scheme, ...

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140. Climate Alarmism with Professor Richard Lindzen

140. Climate Alarmism with Professor Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen is professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he joins us to offer his scientific expertise on climate alarmism. He discusses how his background in phys...

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139. Fossil Future with Alex Epstein

139. Fossil Future with Alex Epstein

Alex Epstein joins us again to discuss his excellent new book, Fossil Future, which makes a powerful case for why fossil fuels are essential for human flourishing, and why restricting them is the real...

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138. Climate physics with Professor William Happer

138. Climate physics with Professor William Happer

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137. Clown Continent

137. Clown Continent

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136. Starfish Publishing with Niko Laamanen

136. Starfish Publishing with Niko Laamanen

Niko Laamanen, founder of Konsensus Network, joins us to discuss bitcoin publishing and his company's decentralized “starfish” organizational model. He explains how reading The Bitcoin Standard led hi...

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