Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as a thorough statement of the bitcoin-maximalist case, with the host pushing back.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Lex Fridman

Topic

bitcoin and austrian economics

Format

podcast

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• I recommend Saifedean Ammous' interview with Lex Fridman. He's got strong opinions and a somewhat dour persona, but as Lebanese-Palestinese he's lived in a very different environment than what we're used to here in the West. If you keep an open mind and understand where …

• > But "Crypto" (specifically the energy intensive kind) has a different problem, and that's that it has /massive/ externalities that it simply ignores, forcing us, the people who want nothing to do with it, to now deal with it Grossly inefficient personal transportation and industrial …