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Bitcoin Wins in a World of Currency Devaluation

Introduction: HODL for Good

Bringing New Light to HODLing

Aristotle's Golden Mean

First Principles: Capital Accumulation and Deployment

Humans Acting Purposefully

Defining Capital

Producing More Things with Capital

Lengthening Structure of Production

Fiat Money: A Disturbance to the Process

Cash is Continually Devalued

Business Cycle Realities

Hodling for Good

Investment Opportunities & Economic Growth

Gratuitous Benefit to Everyone Else

Abundant Generosity in the State

Bitcoin's Impact on the Global Economy

Living in a Bitcoin World

Time Preference and Gratuitous Goods

The Benefit of Capital Accumulation

The Ripple Effect in the Marketplace

Productivity and Knowledge

Barber Example in Productive Economy

What is True Leisure?

Leisure is About Contemplation

You Work for Leisure

The Civilizing Process

Looking Into the Abyss

Forces Market to Rethink

Brent Hull - Housing Expert

Building Great Vibes

Higher Sense of What You're Trying to Do

The Ultimate Value of Sats Is Up To You

More Bricks and a Brick Factory

What Are We Going to Do with the Wealth

Rest, Recalibrate, and Go Back in

Personal Mining Experience

Productive Use of Leisure

Software Is Capital

Fiat vs. Bitcoin

Room to Rest with Bitcoin

Long Term View of Passing it Down

Vision of a Higher Good

Thinking About What's Out There

What Can You Do To Be Better

Poverty Can't Have Magnificence

What Outlasts the Value of Your Bitcoin?

What Impact Do You Want to Create in the World?

The Cathedral in Florence Example

Make the Conditions That Make Change Possible

Can't Imagine Wanting to Live Without It

Is a Vision a Pipe Dream?

The First Step

What the SNI and its Supporters Can Do

The Institutions

Final TFTC Interview Austin

Marty sits down with Michael Goldstein to discuss the philosophy behind "hodling for good" - exploring how Bitcoin holders can use Austrian economics principles to think beyond mere price appreciation toward deploying their savings for higher purposes like leisure, education, capital goods, and magnificent works that benefit civilization while maintaining the economic virtue of low time preference saving.
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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#625: Leisure, Magnificence, and the Bitcoin Standard with Michael Goldstein

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