Saifedean Ammous is an internationally best-selling economist and author. In 2018, Ammous authored The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, the best-selling book on bitcoin, publishedin 36 languages. In 2021, he published The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization, available in 12 languages, and in 2023, he published Principles of Economics, a university-level economics textbook. Saifedean teaches courses on the economics of bitcoin, and economics in the Austrian school tradition, on his online learning platform Saifedean.com, and also hosts The Bitcoin Standard Podcast.
"Saifedean's penetrating insight is to explain the operation of
fiat by analogy to the operation of bitcoin. In this context, we
can think of fiat as a digital currency, like an altcoin, defining
its qualities and characteristics and its strengths and weaknesses.
Whereas The Bitcoin Standard's analytical framework centered around
assessing salability across time, and how it explains the monetary
rise of gold and bitcoin, in The Fiat Standard, Saifedean uses the
framework of salability across space to explain the rise of fiat
and how it replaced gold. Far from a one-sided attack on fiat, The
Fiat Standard illustrates and explains the advantages that made
fiat's global adoption possible. This framework in turn forms the
basis for assessing bitcoin's rise in a fiat world, its security
model, and chances of continued success."
--Ross Stevens "Ross Stevens"
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