The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Throwback to Saifedean's 2018 launch of The Bitcoin Standard with his first book talk, held in Vienna, fittingly enough!

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Saifedean is hosted by Bitcoin Magazine TV to discuss his recent work on Bitcoin mining and stablecoins, as well as the US fiscal outlook.

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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.

Bitcoiner HAC invites us to rethink Bitcoin hardware from scratch. What does a signing device actually do and can you do it yourself? He makes the case for why DIY Bitcoin with generic hardware is better than specialized Bitcoin hardware.

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Saifedean reads Chapter 9 of his latest book, The Gold Standard, in which the world gets a decentralized and censorship-resistant international gold clearance system that changes the course of history! You can buy the full audiobook on Audible or saifedean.com, and get your physical copies from Amazon or saifedean.com

Founder of the Seedsigner open source project joins us to discuss the Coldcard hack, how the Seedsigner works, and the advantages of open source solutions.

Seedsigner website: https://seedsigner.com/

Twitter profile of Seed Signer: @seedsigner

Twitter profile of Seed: @sesi_the_man

Twitter profiles of other key contributors: @KeithMukai @newtonick @easyuxd