We’re joined by Balaji Srinivasan, entrepreneur and investor, to explore his ideas from The Network State: how technology is reshaping companies, communities, and currencies—and how it could also enable new cities and even new countries.

The final lecture of this course examines how bitcoin's fixed supply & censorship resistance upends the entire fiat monetary order, & explores how the two systems will interact over time.

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Saifedean's talk at The Bitcoin Conference introducing his new book, The Gold Standard, followed by the introduction and chapter 1 of the book! Get your audiobook, hardcover, or paperback from TheSaifHouse.com or Amazon.com.

Saifedean discusses the main ideas of his new book, The Gold Standard, and his motivation for writing it, in this deep conversation with Robert Dewey of the Exploring Prosperity Podcast.

https://saifedean.com/tgs

In this lecture delivered at the Property and Freedom Society, Saifedean explains why the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the denial of property rights. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere.

The Fiat Standard Lecture 17: Bitcoin Cost-Benefit Analysis explores bitcoin as an electricity-based savings tool, how the value stored exceeds security costs, and why declining supply growth increases monetary efficiency compared to fiat debasement.

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The Fiat Standard Lecture 16: Bitcoin and Energy Markets discusses proof of work as a technological alternative to fiat’s political conflict, how miners seek zero-opportunity-cost energy globally, and why difficulty adjustment turns demand into network security.

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The Fiat Standard Lecture 15: Bitcoin Banking explores why demand for deposits, secure storage, and capital allocation continues under a Bitcoin standard, how high cash reserves and self-custody limit bank risk, and why deposit banking and equity investment naturally separate without a lender of last resort.

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The Fiat Standard Lecture 14: Bitcoin Scaling shows why on-chain scaling has hard limits, why block space must remain scarce to preserve immutability, and how economic incentives push smaller payments to second layers. It also explores how the Lightning Network brings fast, cheap transactions to Bitcoin.

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The Fiat Standard Lecture 13: Why Bitcoin Fixes This explains how Bitcoin compares to fiat & gold in salability across space, separates money & debt, ends credit monetization & allows a separation of money & state.

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The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis calculates the minor benefits of fiat & compares them to its massive destructive effects: wealth erosion, distorted markets, political power grabs, endless wars, societal decay & more.

You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS, where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free download.

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