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44. The economics of banning bitcoin

We look at the economic problems of cracking down on bitcoin, and how that's working out for governments trying it. What can we learn from the prohibition of drugs & alcohol? Will India's recent ban on bitcoin be as big a historic mistake as staying on the silver standard in the nineteenth century?

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347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture

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347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture
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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

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Saifedean revisits The Bitcoin Standard almost ten years after writing it. The first lecture covers the prologue: Bitcoin’s origins, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money.

Watch the lecture and follow the series on The Bitcoin Standard Course page.