255. Is bitcoin a currency or a commodity?

Twelfth lecture of Principles of Economics explores capitalism as the system of private ownership of capital goods, how free capital markets allocate resources to their most productive uses through profit and loss, why economic calculation requires private property, and why socia ...  Show more

Eleventh lecture of Principles of Economics explains how individual preferences coordinate production and consumption decisions through economic calculation based on property rights, and why consumer sovereignty drives entrepreneurial decisions in the market order.Get all course ...  Show more

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is evolving into a global payments system, with over 21,000 active nodes enabling fast, low-cost transactions. Tether’s integration of USDT via the Taproot Asset Protocol could disrupt traditional finance, lowering transaction costs and increasing effi ...  Show more

Rod and Preston discuss Bitcoin’s rapid innovation, from ARK protocol transactions to new mining hardware. They examine custody solutions for Bitcoin treasuries, balancing institutional needs with community values, and preview the Custody & Treasury Summit and “Imagine If” event. ...  Show more

In this episode, Nik Bhatia and Craig Shapiro explore the ripple effects of Federal Reserve policies, market movements, and the strength of the U.S. dollar under Trump’s pro-Bitcoin administration. They unpack how rising yields, persistent inflation, and tightening financial c ...

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