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TRIGGERnometry

Money & Crypto for Dummies with Saifdean Ammous

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Saifdean Ammous is a leading researcher and educator in the field of Bitcoin. Dr Ammous is also the author of the best-selling The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking.  SPONSORS:  The Alder Files, check them out for all your branding, visual, & motion graphics needs https://www.thealderfiles.com - Manscaped. Receive 20% off Manscaped products when you use the code Trigger20. Check out their products https://www.manscaped.com Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the politicians, the media, they're all the been and the major corporations, of course, they are the beneficiaries of

0:07.5

inflation and

0:09.5

the

0:10.5

victims of inflation are essentially duped into voting for their own

0:14.5

impoverishment because they're told they're going to be getting some of the spoils, but the spoils that they get are a

0:20.7

tiny little fraction of

0:24.4

The wealth that gets stolen from them

0:30.8

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen. And this is

0:39.1

a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. Our brilliant guest today

0:45.1

is the author of the Fiat Standard and the Bitcoin Standard who also runs his online learning platform

0:50.1

at safetyin.com. Dr. Safety Namus, welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you for having me guys. It's a

0:55.1

pleasure to be here. It is a great pleasure to have you on before we get into the conversation

1:00.2

Tell everybody a little bit about who are you, how are you, where you are, what has been your journey through life

1:05.0

That leads you to be sitting here talking to us

1:07.5

Well, I'm Palestinian Jordanian and I got a PhD in sustainable development from Columbia University

1:16.1

And I was a university professor in the Lebanese American University when I came across this new interesting toy called Bitcoin

1:23.1

And then it's fascinated me and then it drew me in like a black hole and took over everything in my life

1:28.4

And I left my university job and I started teaching online. So now I'm independent

1:33.7

I just teach to students directly online and I write books and

1:38.6

I talk to interesting people on the internet like you

1:41.6

Well, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. I've listened to many other things you've spoken about and read some of your work

1:48.6

You're very smart man much smarter than me or Francis. So what we wanted to do is to go through the basics for us and our audience to get a

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