The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Hosted by Dr. Saifedean Ammous

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Oct 2026

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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.

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October 27, 202637 min

349. The Gold Standard - Presented at the Property & Freedom Society

At the Property & Freedom Society, Saifedean presents his latest book, The Gold Standard, an alternative history of the 20th century where hard money ended WWI, made governments compete for citizens & enabled free trade & self-determination. Sponsors: BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/ CrowdHealth: The Bitcoiner’s answer to fiat health insurance. Get your first 3 months for $99/month with code SAIF at https://joincrowdhealth.com The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - https://TheSaifHouse.com

October 20, 202641 min

348. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Lecture 2: Money

Lecture 2 in The Bitcoin Standard explains the problem money solves, how the solution shapes the desirable properties of money: salability across scales, space & time; why the latter property, expressed through hardness, is the critical feature of money & how it can be measured. Join the live discussion seminar on Twitter/X Spaces on Tuesday October 27 at 2pm GMT. Follow @saifedean on Twitter to be sure to join. BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/ CrowdHealth: The Bitcoiner’s answer to fiat health insurance. Get your first 3 months for $99/month with code SAIF at https://joincrowdhealth.com

October 13, 202634 min

347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture

Starting this week, Saifedean will be sharing a new online course on The Bitcoin Standard, revisiting the book almost 10 years on. This first lecture covers the prologue: how Bitcoin started, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money. BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/ CrowdHealth: The Bitcoiner’s answer to fiat health insurance. Get your first 3 months for $99/month with code SAIF at https://joincrowdhealth.com

October 6, 20261 hr 38 min

346. The Bitcoin Standard 2018 Launch

Throwback to Saifedean's 2018 launch of The Bitcoin Standard with his first book talk, held in Vienna, fittingly enough! BitGo: Institutional custody, now available to every Bitcoiner. Sign up on https://www.bitgo.com/saif/

September 29, 202633 min

345. Bitcoin, Mining, and Stablecoins

Saifedean is hosted by Bitcoin Magazine TV to discuss his recent work on Bitcoin mining and stablecoins, as well as the US fiscal outlook. 🔗👇🏼 Sponsors Swan - Your Partner for Generational Wealth - https://swan.com/saif The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - https://TheSaifHouse.com

September 22, 20261 hr 2 min

344. Can Stablecoins Save the Dollar?

Saifedean examines whether growing stablecoin demand can reduce price inflation & help US fiscal solvency. He focuses on often-overlooked trade-offs: lost seigniorage, displaced long-term Treasury demand & bank credit, & more fragile short-term funding & rollover risk. Marina Azzimonti and Vincenzo Quadrini — Digital Assets and the Exorbitant Dollar Privilege Marina Azzimonti and Vincenzo Quadrini — Digital Economy, Stablecoins, and the Global Financial System Stephen Miran — A Global Stablecoin Glut: Implications for Monetary Policy Rashad Ahmed and Iñaki Aldasoro — Stablecoins and Safe Asset Prices Congressional Budget Office — How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2026 to 2036 Saifedean Ammous — Bitcoin & Tether: Drinking the Dollar Milkshake — Bitcoin 2025 Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee — Report to the Secretary of the Treasury

September 15, 202630 min

343. Bitcoin Electricity Consumption May Have Peaked

Saifedean argues bitcoin mining electricity consumption and capital expenditure may have peaked, and presents the argument as a testable hypothesis, and discusses the long-term implications for bitcoin, mining, and AI. Full Article: https://saifedean.substack.com/p/bitcoin-electricity-consumption-may https://x.com/saifedean/status/2099782818138128866 Sponsors: Swan - Your Partner for Generational Wealth - https://swan.com/saif The Saif House - High quality cloth hardcover bitcoin books by Saifedean & more delivered worldwide, with 10% off for paying in bitcoin - https://TheSaifHouse.com

September 8, 20262 hr 26 min

342. Hardware Wallets: Security or Liability

Saifedean hosts a debate between JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco on whether hardware wallets are a security liability. They discuss the Cold Card entropy backdoor, multi-vendor multisig, the code review process in Bitcoin Core, using generic laptops, and how to think about your threat model. Sponsors: Swan: Buy your bitcoin and get concierge service from https://bit.ly/3KeR1Li The Saif House: Get Saifedean's books and high quality bitcoin & economics books with bulk discounts on https://bit.ly/46zZ5fx Learn more: https://yeticold.com/ Follow Giacomo Zucco :https://x.com/giacomozucco Follow JW Weatherman : https://x.com/JWWeatherman_

September 1, 20261 hr 44 min

341. Bitcoin Custody with Ben Westgate & BTC Pavao

Saifedean talks to Ben Westgate and @BtCPavao about how to store bitcoin safely with Bitcoin Core and an old laptop, generating and backing up keys, the problems with BIP39 seed phrases, when multisig makes sense, custodians, and why gambling and lending destroy stacks.

August 25, 20261 hr 7 min

340. Fiat, gold & bitcoin: Interview with Mark Moss.

Saifedean joins Mark Moss to discuss how fiat money and central banking are destroying people's ability to build wealth, why Bitcoin beats gold as a store of value, the recent Cold Card hack, self-custody, and whether borrowing to buy Bitcoin is a smart strategy.

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