In this episode Saifedean talks to Knut Svanholm, author of Bitcoin: Sovereignty through mathematics and Bitcoin: Independence reimagined. They discuss what a “hyperbitcoinized” world might look like, to what extent it might reduce the need for human labor, and how quickly its economy might grow. Both Saifedean and Knut also talk about Austrian School economists Mises, Rothbard and Hoppe, and how key concepts in their writing – such as time preference and scarcity – can be applied to bitcoin. In the Q&A, Knut shares his views on the likelihood of greater sovereignty on the high seas, whether global government control is increasing or decreasing, and why the next big battle within the bitcoin community could be over the design of the satoshi symbol!

Resources

• Knut’s Twitter account.
• Knut’s book Bitcoin: Sovereignty through mathematics
• Knut’s book Bitcoin: Independence reimagined
• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
• Man, Economy and State by Murray Rothbard
• Economic Science and the Austrian Method by Hans Hermann Hoppe
• Bitcoin is Time by Gigi
• Knut’s video Bitcoin’s Adoption Curve Will Not be S-shaped
• The Austrian Theory of Money by Murray Rothbard
• The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited by Murray Rothbard
• The Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard

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