250. Fiat Architecture and Time Preference

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 Azzi ...  Show more

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-electri ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:51 - What gave Saifedean the idea for the new book. 04:15 - What are the four key elements of how the Fiat system works? 10:38 - What surprised Saifedean the most about what value fiat brings to the existing economy. 15:39 - Inflation is a vector ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: Work being done on the lightning network for payments What a deflationary world would look like What would the price of real estate look like How might the stock market get repriced Other technology impacts Bitcoin might have on policy BOOKS AND RES ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: About the current state of commercial Real Estate The impact mid and small cap businesses are having on the real economy Thoughts on UBi in 2021 versus more QE Stable coins and using blockchains for bank clearing Tether concerns Lyn's thoughts on Et ...  Show more

Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – GiveWell: https://www.givewell.org/ and use code LEX – Scale: https://scale.com/lex – Uncruise: https://uncruise.com/pag ...  Show more