The Tom Woods Show, episode 1481.

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

Safedine Amuse is back with us again today.

He is the author of the truly outstanding, a very important book, The Bitcoin Standard,

the Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking.

And I wanted to talk to him a bit about his recent debate at the Soho Forum, moderated by our old friend Gene Epstein.

He had a debate with Professor George Selgin about Bitcoin and its suitability to replace existing monies as a money.

And money in the Misesian sense of being the most commonly used medium of exchange.

I mean, obviously, Bitcoin is presently a

medium of exchange, but it's not the most widely used medium of exchange. Is it suitable for that

purpose? So that was the debate. And I will link to that debate. Why not? What would be the

point of not linking to it? I'll link to that debate so you can watch the whole thing for yourself,

if you like, at tomwoods.com slash 1481. Safe, welcome back. Thank you for having me, Tom. I just love the Soho

forum, and I'm so glad that you got to participate in it. And I could tell from the crowd response

that you had some supporters in that room. I mean, it was really genuine supporters.

So I thought it was an interesting debate, and I thought it would be a good moment to have

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