The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

Starting this week, Saifedean will be sharing a new online course on The Bitcoin Standard, revisiting the book almost 10 years on. This first lecture covers the prologue: how Bitcoin started, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money.
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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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