149: Dr. Saifedean Ammous - Cryptocurrency, The History of Money, Addressing Bitcoin’s Energy Usage, and More
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Saifedean Ammous and Dr. Anthony Gustin discuss the history of money, using gold and other metals as currency, cryptocurrency, hyperinflation, dispelling a big criticism of Bitcoin, what the future holds, and more.
Dr. Ammous, a carnivore for several years, also ties the conversation back to health so it’s not completely missing from this episode that’s not as health-focused as the podcast usually is.
If you don’t know Dr. Saifedean Ammous’ work, he’s authored two books, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking and The Fiat Solution.
He also holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University, an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut.
When you tune into this episode, you’ll hear about these topics:
- How crypto currency gives people hope
- Principles from Saifedean’s book, The Bitcoin Standard
- A brief history of money and how we got to this point
- What we’ve learned from using gold and other metals as currency
- Easy versus hard money examples
- What was the incentive to come up with separate currencies?
- What are the long-term implications of all this?
- What hyperinflation can lead to
- What makes Bitcoin different from gold or the US dollar?
- How is crypto currency possible now and why wasn’t it around sooner?
- What about the biggest criticism of Bitcoin -- that it uses incredible amounts of energy?
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Dr. Saifedean Ammous’ website
- Dr. Ammous’ Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube channel
- Dr. Ammous’ books, The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard
- Dr. Ammous’ online courses
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Natural State podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guston. It is |
| 0:10.2 | my belief that the natural state of any living organism's health and that our artificial |
| 0:14.5 | habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to |
| 0:18.7 | dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationships and more to help |
| 0:23.8 | you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive |
| 0:27.8 | in an environment that's stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find |
| 0:31.3 | out more details and information at Dr. Anthony Guston.com. |
| 0:35.7 | All right, let's welcome Safedin and Moss to the podcast today. Safedin wrote a book called |
| 0:42.0 | The Bitcoin Standard and so we deviate a little bit from the general health exploration |
| 0:47.6 | on the show today to talk about cryptocurrency. I've gotten so many questions for people |
| 0:51.2 | what my stance is and while this was recorded in the fall of last year where Bitcoin was |
| 0:56.4 | a double the price it is now, it's interesting that a lot of the things that Safedin talks |
| 1:00.0 | about here still apply and it's interesting about how he thinks in what he cares about |
| 1:05.0 | as well is that he thinks that food security is going to go under siege over the next, |
| 1:08.9 | I don't know how along, but it's important for him to be able to use these type of currencies |
| 1:13.5 | to get sovereignty for people, especially in areas like food security. So we tie it back |
| 1:18.1 | still into some health stuff and just go deep into why he thinks that this is such an |
| 1:22.7 | important technology and why other cryptocurrencies may or may not be worth holding. So if you |
| 1:28.6 | are interested, if you're hurting about Web 3, D5, we don't really go into those things, |
| 1:32.2 | but this is about a little bit more specific to Bitcoin. So tune into this one and I hope |
| 1:35.9 | you guys can learn some stuff and hopefully we've simplified it if you knew to Bitcoin |
| 1:41.6 | or cryptocurrency. This will be a great overview and if you're not, well probably not to |
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