In this video, Saifedean Ammous explains why Bitcoin is the best money humanity has ever created. Saifedean makes the case for money as a market phenomenon, and argues that bitcoin has the scarcity, divisibility, fungibility and transportability that humans have historically valued in monies.

0:00 The History of money
1:20 Gold evolves as money
2:40 Stock to flow of other commodities
5:30 The hardest money wins
6:35 Giving up the Gold Standard by introducing Fiat Money
7:50 Time Preference
8:19 Bitcoin is the best money

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