Why 21 Million: The Hitchhiker's Theory

About this episode

Brian explores the significance of the 21 million Bitcoin cap and its implications for scarcity and payment systems.

21 million is what makes Bitcoin work — but where did the number come from? Satoshi was too methodical with everything else for us to assume it was arbitrary. In this episode of Love & Hard Money, Brian walks through why mathematical scarcity is different from every other kind of scarcity we've ever had, why our current payment system is essentially a leaky balloon with an evil clown airbrushed on it, and why the volatility you see in Bitcoin is caused by the exact same people who don't u...

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• mathematical scarcity
• payment systems
• volatility
• economic theory

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• 21 million
• scarcity
• payment system
• volatility
• Satoshi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Satoshi

Products: Bitcoin

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