299. Property Rights: The Root of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
In this lecture delivered at the Property and Freedom Society, Saifedean explains why the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the denial of property rights. Religious and racial conflict...
11 Nov 202539min
298. The Fiat Standard Lecture 17: Bitcoin Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Fiat Standard Lecture 17: Bitcoin Cost-Benefit Analysis explores bitcoin as an electricity-based savings tool, how the value stored exceeds security costs, and why declining supply growth increase...
4 Nov 202537min
297. The Fiat Standard Lecture 16: Bitcoin and Energy Markets
The Fiat Standard Lecture 16: Bitcoin and Energy Markets discusses proof of work as a technological alternative to fiat’s political conflict, how miners seek zero-opportunity-cost energy globally, and...
28 Okt 20251h 16min
296. The Fiat Standard Lecture 15: Bitcoin Banking
The Fiat Standard Lecture 15: Bitcoin Banking explores why demand for deposits, secure storage, and capital allocation continues under a Bitcoin standard, how high cash reserves and self-custody limit...
21 Okt 20251h 6min
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...
14 Okt 202554min
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 ...
7 Okt 202535min
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...
30 Sep 202531min
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...
23 Sep 20251h 3min
