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INTRODUCING THE BITCOINERS' BOOKSHOP

The Saif House makes the best Bitcoin books available worldwide, in physical, digital, and audio formats, while allowing you to pay in bitcoin (lightning or on-chain), or with fiat.

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INTRODUCING THE BITCOINERS' BOOKSHOP

The Saif House makes the best Bitcoin books available worldwide, in physical, digital, and audio formats, while allowing you to pay in bitcoin (lightning or on-chain), or with fiat.

Visit The Saif House

INTRODUCING THE BITCOINERS' BOOKSHOP

The Saif House makes the best Bitcoin books available worldwide, in physical, digital, and audio formats, while allowing you to pay in bitcoin (lightning or on-chain), or with fiat.

Visit The Saif House

INTRODUCING THE BITCOINERS' BOOKSHOP

The Saif House makes the best Bitcoin books available worldwide, in physical, digital, and audio formats, while allowing you to pay in bitcoin (lightning or on-chain), or with fiat.

Visit The Saif House

The Saif House makes the best Bitcoin books available worldwide, in physical, digital, and audio formats, while allowing you to pay in bitcoin (lightning or on-chain), or with fiat.

Visit The Saif House

Courses

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When you join saifedean.com you gain access to all four online economics courses, as well as chapters from both books and forum membership! You can also join the weekly discussion seminars where we discuss bitcoin, economics, and a variety of questions and topics.

Courses

When you join Saifedean.com you gain access to all four online economics courses, as well full access to both books and forum membership! You can also join the weekly discussion seminars where we discuss bitcoin, economics, and a variety of questions and topics.

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Dr. Saifedean Ammous

Saifedean Ammous is an internationally best-selling economist and author. In 2018, Ammous authored The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, the best-selling book on bitcoin, published in 37 languages. In 2021, he published The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization, available in 12 languages. In May 2023, Saifedean published his latest book, Principles of Economics, a comprehensive textbook in economics in the Austrian school tradition.

Saifedean teaches courses on the economics of bitcoin, and economics in the Austrian school tradition, on his online learning platform Saifedean.com, and also hosts The Bitcoin Standard Podcast. Saifedean was a professor of Economics at the Lebanese American University from 2009 to 2019. He holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University, a Masters in Development Management from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut.

This website is intended to showcase Dr. Ammous’ research in studying the economics of bitcoin, and nothing in it should be construed as investment advice. Bitcoin is a sophisticated technology whose ownership requires an understanding of complex technologies and tools. Before deciding whether to invest in bitcoin, you should do your own extensive research into the financial and technical aspects involved. Nothing written in this website should be considered advice related to that decision.

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Books

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Published in 37 languages with more than 6,700 Amazon reviews, and is widely considered the most important book for understanding the economics of bitcoin.

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The sequel to The Bitcoin Standard, applying its framework to analyzing the current monetary system.

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A university-level textbook explaining the most important concepts in economics in the Austrian school tradition.

Testimonials

"This book blew my mind; it is a work of genius. It put together the technical, economic, motivational and related issues around Bitcoin better than anything I've seen. The best compliment I can give this book is that I read it and I decided to buy $425m of bitcoin. It was the most impactful on our way of thinking in Microstrategy and it made us want to invert our balance sheet to base it on a bitcoin standard."
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Michael Saylor

MicroStrategy Founder, Chairman & CEO

"The Bitcoin Standard is an incredible book!"
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Russel Okung

NFL Super Bowl Winner

"Saifedean Ammous makes Bitcoin easy to understand for everyone without getting lost in technical details. He explains very clearly why Bitcoin may become the world's standard of value and settlement creating a more prosperous and equitable world. Reading Ammous one can imagine why Bitcoin succeeding my be the biggest leap civilization has ever taken in the democratization of money."
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Wences Casares

CEO of Xapo

I have spent my entire career studying works about monetary theory, the gold standard, comparative monetary systems, central banks, and proposals for monetary and financial reform.  I would rate a tiny fraction of the books I have read about any one of these topics as excellent.  Dr.  Ammous’ book, The Bitcoin Standard, contains an excellent treatment of all these topics in addition to one of the few enlightened and enlightening accounts of Bitcoin that I have come across.  It is essential reading for anyone interested in learning the role Bitcoin could play in a future regime of free and sound money.
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Dr. Joseph T. Salerno

Academic Vice President & Editor, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Mises Institute

Dr. Saifedean Ammous gave us the definitive book on digital money with The Bitcoin Standard, a must-read for anyone interested in monetary tech and worried about ruinous fiat regimes. Now his online academy gives students access to the man himself, an opportunity to learn economics as it should be taught: at market prices, online, with no wasted time or material. Ammous is a brilliant and concise teacher of Austrian school economics, and I cannot recommend his courses highly enough.
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Jeff Deist

President of Mises Institute

Hoy les recomiendo EL PATRÓN BITCOIN, este libro es el mejor y más importante para entender Bitcoin.
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas

The Bitcoin Standard is a great book. A really really good book. It helps you understand why bitcoin is so special and so real.
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Kiril Sokoloff

Chairman and Founder, 13D Global Strategy & Research

With a strong libertarian voice, this provides a good overview of cryptocurrencies and their potential to change our global economy and our lives in the future.
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Dan Draper

Chief Executive Officer at S&P Dow Jones Indices

Saifedean.com Membership

Join Saifedean.com to study all the material in his four online courses, forum and join live seminars. Plus you will also get access to digital books, The Fiat Standard and Principles of Economics.

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Digital versions of The Fiat Standard & Principles of Economics
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Full access to Saifedean's other online courses: The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard, and an additional bonus course Hard Questions on Hard Money
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Lifetime membership in Saifedean's forum
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