In this episode Saifedean talks to writer and head of business development at Unchained Capital Parker Lewis about his Gradually, Then Suddenly series. They start by discussing Parker’s career in traditional finance during the 2008 financial crisis, and how discovering Austrian economics and bitcoin helped him to truly understand the workings of global finance. They then talk about the arguments of some of Parker’s wellknown articles on topics ranging from why bitcoin can’t be copied to why bitcoin isn’t too volatile to why bitcoin can’t be banned. In the Q&A Parker discusses rumours that he will run for mayor of Austin and whether hyperbitcoinization will lead to US dollar inflation.

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0:00 Introducing Parker Lewis
03:30 How Parker Got Into Bitcoin
07:00 Trying To Build Money On Gold
12:00 Is The FED Going To Tighten?
22:30 How Inflation Will Be Influenced
26:50 Does Bitcoin Fix The Banking System?
31:50 Why Is Saving Seen As A Bad Thing And How Does Bitcoin Fix This?
38:00 Malinvestment By Central Planning
42:00 Central Banking Distorting Price Signals
46:00 Why You Need To Understand Saving
50:00 Inflationary Money Destroys the possibility to save
52:40 Bitcoin Gradually Then Suddenly
58:30 Evolving from A NoCoiner To A Bitcoiner
01:00:10 Why Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied
01:05:00 You Can’t Get Less Inflation Than Bitcoin’s
01:08:00 The World Only Needs One Currency
01:12:50 Altcoin Developers
01:15:15 Bitcoin Is Not To Volatile
01:23:15 Can Bitcoin Be Banned?
01:30:11 Parker Running for Mayor of Austin
01:32:10 Is Austin The New Bitcoin Citadel?
01:37:00 Attracting New People Because Of Bitcoin
01:40:30 Pitching to High Networth Individuals
01:45:25 Will Bitcoin Lead To The USDollar Inflation

A full list of Parker’s articles on the Nakamoto Institute website:
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/authors...

Bitcoin can’t be copied:
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool...

Bitcoin is Not Too Volatile:
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool...

Bitcoin Cannot be Banned:
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool...

Vijay Boyapati’s article The Bullish Case For Bitcoin for discussion of bitcoin’s volatility:
  / thebullishcaseforbitcoin  

Saifedean’s first book, The Bitcoin Standard:
http://saifedean.com/thebitcoinstandard

Saifedean’s second book, The Fiat Standard:
http://saifedean.com/thefiatstandard

Parker on Twitter:
  / parkeralewis  

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