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Podcast: Crypto Voices
Episode: Saifedean Ammous: The Bitcoin Standard
Description: Crypto Voices: Episode 45
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Matthew & Fernando interview Saifedean Ammous, economics professor and author of the new book, The Bitcoin Standard.
We discuss Saif's background and why he decided to write "the book we all wanted to have written" covering Bitcoin, banking, and economics. Saif explains the importance of Bitcoin's supply schedule and the difficulty adjustment; the anatomy of monetary demand versus monetary supply; the proper comparison of Bitcoin to the current international payment system (as opposed to purchasing coffee on-chain); and a Bitcoin standard. We discuss the competitive landscape of mining...