Book · 2018 · Business & Economics
The Bitcoin Standard
The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
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- podcasts
- 4
- episodes
- 11
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- 0
I think you gotta start with bitcoin standard uh that one to me feels like uh it really lays out the picture nicely.
What they say about it
- Highly recommends the book“a book i highly recommend”2
- Read the book recently“i just recently finished reading”2
The best things said about it
I just recently finished reading The Bitcoin Standard, a book I highly recommend.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2021 And I started looking for the books and I read the Bitcoin standard and I I got quote unquote dragged down the rabbit hole.
Michael Saylor The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jun 2025 The Bitcoin Standard, a lot of people don't like it, I just read it, it's good.
One guy that's done a great job working on this is Saifedean Ammous, who wrote the book, The Bitcoin Standard.
Michael Saylor Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2022 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Saifedean Ammous's "The Bitcoin Standard" offers a detailed exploration of the history of money and argues for the economic necessity of a hard, decentralized currency rooted in Austrian economic principles. The book has become a foundational text within the cryptocurrency community. Michael Saylor described on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast and the Lex Fridman Podcast how reading the book dragged him down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin research while he investigated historical inflation and the expansion of the money supply. Jordan Peterson highlighted the book at the close of an episode featuring the author, while Nic Carter recommended it on the Lex Fridman Podcast as a strong introduction to Austrian economics despite its polarizing reputation. Anthony Pompliano told Lex Fridman that the book lays out the picture of Bitcoin nicely for beginners, and Lex Fridman himself repeatedly recommended it to listeners after finishing reading it during his own deep dive into cryptocurrency.
Every mention
Lex Fridman i'm reading and thinking a lot on this topic i just recently finished reading the bitcoin standard a book i… 3
Discussed
“People should know that you've written the book "The Bitcoin Standard" from 2018, I believe.”
Recommended
“i'm reading and thinking a lot on this topic i just recently finished reading the bitcoin standard a book i highly recommend”
Recommended
“i just recently finished reading the bitcoin standard a book i highly recommend”
Michael Saylor and I started looking for the books and I read the Bitcoin standard and I I got quote unquote dragged down… 2
Recommended
“and I started looking for the books and I read the Bitcoin standard and I I got quote unquote dragged down the rabbit hole”
Recommended
“Now, if you dig deeper, I mean one guy that's done a great job working on this is Saidedean Ammous, who wrote the book, "The Bitcoin Standard."”
Anthony Pompliano i think you gotta start with bitcoin standard uh that one to me feels like uh it really lays out the pictur… 1
Recommended
“i think you gotta start with bitcoin standard uh that one to me feels like uh it really lays out the picture nicely”
Jordan Peterson so everyone remembers the two books are um the Bitcoin standard and the Fiat standard 1
Recommended
“so everyone remembers the two books are um the Bitcoin standard and the Fiat standard”
Nic Carter would be the bitcoin standard a lot of people don't like it i just read it it's good 1
Recommended
“would be the bitcoin standard a lot of people don't like it i just read it it's good”
Saifedean Ammous it's a great description of in 2017 essentially the miners thought that they could control bitcoin 1
Recommended
“it's a great description of in 2017 essentially the miners thought that they could control bitcoin”
Adam Curry it took me seven years before i said oh [ __ ] and they had to read you know the bitcoin standard siphon mo… 1
Discussed
“it took me seven years before i said oh [ __ ] and they had to read you know the bitcoin standard siphon mousse”
Alex Gladstein very different from the bitcoin standard 1
Discussed
“very different from the bitcoin standard”
Robert Breedlove but he had written um the forward to a really important book in Bitcoin called the Bitcoin standard for saf… 1
Discussed
“but he had written um the forward to a really important book in Bitcoin called the Bitcoin standard for safety in a moose and then I think they had a little Twitter beef because safe was is very much against covid mask and state intervention whereas tb's on the other side of the fence”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Recommended
“book recommendation on uh book book recommendation the bitcoin standard mark jensen says”
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Plugged
“He's an Austrian economist, an anarchist, and the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" and the new book, "The Fiat Standard."”
Plugged
“you've written the the book bitcoin standard from 2018 i believe yeah”
Plugged
“in the bitcoin standard i present the argument that money is always whatever is the hardest thing to make”
Plugged
“In "The Bitcoin Standard," I present the argument that money is always whatever is the hardest thing to make.”
Plugged
“Over the last 150 years since 1870, I discuss this in detail in "The Bitcoin Standard."”
Plugged
“and i discussed this in detail in uh the bitcoin standard what happened in 1870 was germany won the franco-prussian war and germany was on a silver standard”
Plugged
“so if you look at on in the bitcoin standard i mentioned this metric called the stock to flow ratio which is the ratio of the annual production the flow to the stockpile the existing stockpiles”
Plugged
“and i discussed this in chapter four of the bitcoin standard”
Passing
“and this clip comes from an interview he did with doctors sephidine amus uh sephidine i hope i am pronouncing your name correct sephidine is the author of the bitcoin standard the decentralized alternative to central banking which was published in 2018”
Passing
“Dr safetine is the author of the Bitcoin standard which was published in 2018 and the newly released Fiat standard”
Plugged
“and I think this is a big deal and essentially the first four chapters of my book focus on explaining why this is such a big deal”
Plugged
“and um this is kind of the sociological explanations for it now to get more technical in terms of the explanations”
Plugged
“and I think this is something I discuss extensively in the Bitcoin standard I think that's uh highly related to the time preference of individuals which is an enormously important topic”
Plugged
“also we've always used but again it won't build you a car um in order to have all these modern conveniences that we have we need those energies and people in the Fiat world are completely dissociated from this reality”
Plugged
“um what happens is that uh you know if more miners try and mine copper or gold or silver you end up with a lot more copper or so gold or silver”
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“i recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on Ledger's started around 30,000 years ago the US dollar created over two hundred years ago”