Sounded ID: 9781544526454
ISBN: 9781544526454
Publication Date: December 21, 2021
Publisher: Saif House
Language: English
Author Name: Saifedean Ammous
Narrator Name: Guy Swann
n The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.
This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.
With penetrating insight,...
n The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.
This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.
With penetrating insight, Ammous analyzes global political currencies by analogy to bitcoin: how they're "mined" whenever government-guaranteed entities create loans, their lack of inherent restraints on inflation, and the rampant government intervention that has resulted in heavy, devastating, and persistent distortions to global markets for food, fuel, science, and education.
Through these comparisons, Ammous demonstrates that bitcoin could be our next step forward—providing high salability across space, just like the fiat system, but without the unchecked fiat-denominated debt. Rather than a messy hyperinflationary collapse, the rise of bitcoin could look like a debt jubilee and an orderly upgrade to the world's monetary operating system, revolutionizing global capital and energy markets.
# | Title | Duration |
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1. | Opening |
0 mins 26 secs |
2. | About the Author |
0 mins 42 secs |
3. | Foreword |
9 mins 47 secs |
4. | Chapter 1 Introduction |
15 mins 40 secs |
5. | Chapter 2 The Never-Ending Bank Holiday |
37 mins 05 secs |
6. | Chapter 3 Fiat Technology |
25 mins 14 secs |
7. | Chapter 4 Fiat Mining |
33 mins 03 secs |
8. | 008 Chapter 5 |
39 mins 23 secs |
9. | Chapter 6 What Is Fiat Good For? |
56 mins 40 secs |
10. | 010 Chapter 7 |
33 mins 40 secs |
11. | Chapter 8 Fiat Food |
1 hr 07 mins |
12. | 012 Chapter 9 |
57 mins 32 secs |
13. | Chapter 10 Fiat Fuels |
52 mins 52 secs |
14. | Chapter 11 Fiat States |
1 hr 03 mins |
15. | Chapter 12 Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis |
20 mins 29 secs |
16. | Chapter 13 Why Bitcoin Fixes This |
27 mins 25 secs |
17. | Chapter 14 Bitcoin Scaling |
38 mins 15 secs |
18. | Chapter 15 Bitcoin Banking |
38 mins 06 secs |
19. | Chapter 16 Bitcoin and Energy Markets |
39 mins 24 secs |
20. | 020 Chapter 17 |
19 mins 36 secs |
21. | Chapter 18 Can Bitcoin Fix This |
1 hr 06 mins |
22. | Supporters |
16 mins 54 secs |
23. | Acknowledgements |
3 mins 51 secs |
24. | Closing |
0 mins 26 secs |
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