100: Saifedean Ammous ON: Why Bitcoin Is NOT A Ponzi Scheme

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In this episode, Saifedean Ammous discusses why Bitcoin should not be considered a Ponzi scheme and explores its value as a form of money.

👉 Engage top talent and empower your team with Bitcoin saving: https://blockrewards.ca What if the single biggest mistake people make about Bitcoin is assuming it has to pay a yield to be real? Welcome to episode 100 where I sit down with the one and only Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard . We strip Bitcoin back to its core: money that holds value because it can’t be easily made. We dig into why no yield doesn’t equal a Ponzi Scheme, how fiat currencies are designed to rob savers, and why houses became saving accounts instead of homes. Saifedean breaks down Bitcoin’s fixed supply, the way halving works, and why that scarcity keeps driving demand. We explore what happens when governments keep printing, why high time preference thinking blinds them to Bitcoin, and how this all adds up to a slow-motion debt jubilee as fiat fades into irrelevance. You’ll Learn: The reason calling Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme because it has no yield misses the whole point of money What happens when fiat money is built to lose 5–10% of value every year  The link between housing bubbles and broken money  The damage of inflation pushing entire generations out of homeownership and into…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Dedels

Guest: Saifedean Ammous

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• Ponzi Scheme
• fiat currency
• inflation
• debt jubilee
• money supply
• housing market

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Ponzi Scheme
• fiat
• inflation
• debt jubilee
• housing
• money

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Books & works: The Bitcoin Standard

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