In this episode Saifedean is joined by Vijay Boyapati, author of one of the most widely known articles for bitcoin beginners: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. In this wide-ranging discussion Saifedean and Vijay analyse bitcoin’s rise through their shared framework of the Austrian School of Economics. They discuss Vijay’s four frameworks for valuing bitcoin, how technology “hype cycles” can help us understand bitcoin’s price movements and why fiat economists like Paul Krugman are so keen to undermine bitcoin’s success.

Links referenced:

• The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
• Speculative Bitcoin Adoption/Price Theory blog post by Michael Casey
• The Use of Knowledge in Society by F.A. Hayek
• Bob Murphy’s critique of “Debt: The First 5000 Years”

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