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

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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’s precise, irrevocable private-key control.

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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's explanation of prices as a vector is far better for understanding inflation.

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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 default risk onto society, & undermining savings, trade, & capital accumulation.

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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.

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Starting this week, Saifedean will be sharing the full 18 lectures of his online course The Fiat Standard, based on his book by the same name. 

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Saifedean joins Ben Wehrman to discuss how Bitcoin can bring peace by defunding the war machine.

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Saifedean joins Robert Breedlove at the Bitcoin Las Vegas 2025 conference for a wide-ranging discussion on Austrian economics, time preference, morality, fiat money, and the future of civilization.

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Saifedean's keynote talk at the Bitcoin Conference, discussing whether Tether can save the dollar. Also included is an interview with Natalie Brunell at the conference.

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Khalil Sayegh is the founder of the Agora Initiative, and a Gazan who lost family and friends in the Gaza genocide.

The Agora Initiative: https://theagorainitiative.org/

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