124. Adventures in Late Stage Fiat: CFA Franc with Fodé Diop

124. Adventures in Late Stage Fiat: CFA Franc with Fodé Diop

How did the CFA franc come to be the common currency of 14 West and Central African nations? Who controls it and why did it suddenly lose half of its value in 1994? In this episode, we are joined by software engineer and founder of Bitcoin Developers Academy, Fodé Diop, for a discussion on the fascinating monetary history of West Africa. Fodé explains how the CFA franc has allowed France to maintain economic dominance in West Africa, how the 1994 devaluation affected his family, and why he is...

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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...

9 Sep 20251h 21min

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...

2 Sep 202549min

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...

26 Aug 202548min

287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?

287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?

Fiat's superior salability across space enabled global adoption, financed governments, & entrenched fractional-reserve banks, at the cost of losing value across time. You can buy the hardcover, ebook ...

19 Aug 202552min

286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery

286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery

The Fiat Standard Lecture 5: Fiat Balances shows how fiat’s unquantifiable, irreconcilable, tentative, revocable, and negative balances kill saving, reward debt, and lock in servitude, unlike Bitcoin’...

12 Aug 202548min

285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining

285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining

Lecture 4 of The Fiat Standard explains how fiat is mined through credit creation, incentivizing everyone to get into debt, causing prices to rise, which is covered up with the nonsensical CPI. Saylor...

5 Aug 20251h 2min

284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology

284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology

Lecture 3 of The Fiat Standard explains the underlying technology behind fiat: a centralized network where money is created from credit expansion, devaluing existing holders' wealth, externalizing def...

29 Juli 202542min

283. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 2 - The Never-Ending Bank Holiday

283. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 2 - The Never-Ending Bank Holiday

This is Lecture 2 of Saifedean's online course The Fiat Standard, based on his book by the same name. The course began last week and will include all 18 lectures. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or a...

22 Juli 202535min

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