₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #015: The Austrian School & the Political Economics of Bitcoin

Bitcoin is now an official currency in El Salvador? Does that make sense? Isn't Bitcoin a deflationary money, and deflation is bad for the economy, so Bitcoin couldn't work as a currency? Is this really the case? We'll discuss this and related topics like the radical unregulated free market and praxeology with Rahim Taghizadegan.

"The political economics of Bitcoin – the Austrian School, the financial system, capitalism and crypto-socialism"

Rahim Taghizadegan is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition and has been teaching at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.

As one of the last Viennese polymaths, he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur.

He has written more than a dozen books (like Austrian School for Investors and The Zero Interest Trap), some of them best-sellers, and is the founder of the scholarium in Vienna, where the Austrian School is kept alive in its original interdisciplinary form of the Hayek- and Mises-Circles.

Rahim Taghizadegan was one of the first academic economists to understand and analyze the monetary nature of Bitcoin. Today, he heads the Free Private Cities Foundation, which is making Bitcoin Citadels a reality.

• https://scholarium.at/
• https://twitter.com/scholarium_at
• https://www.freeprivatecities.com/en/
• "Austrian School for Investors" https://amzn.to/3fHnuXy
• "The Zero Interest Trap" https://amzn.to/2T6oigX

This online meetup will be co-hosted with the Wasabi Research Club: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WasabiResearchExperience

Material: Some recommended preparation material will be posted in the comment section below a few days prior

Format: Presentation, extended discussion, Socratic light https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/op-ed-want-to-learn-about-bitcoin-try-a-local-socratic-seminar

Language: English

Target Audience: Suitable for newcomers as well as long-time bitcoiners, critics, and everyone interested. There'll be an introductory part about the monetary aspects of Bitcoin and later an in-depth discussion part that may require deeper knowledge in Austrian Economics.

Streaming/Recording: Yes

Location: Online. As a YouTube stream, or you can join via Jitsi Meet video conferencing or in a Mozilla Hubs 3D/VR environment. Both are Free and Open Source Software, non-profit, respect and preserve your privacy, don't collect any unnecessary data, don't require any login/registration, and simply run in your web browser without any downloads.

• Jitsi Meet on FreifunkMUC: https://ffmuc.net/wiki/doku.php?id=knb:meet-en
• Mozilla Hubs: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

How to find us: We'll share further instructions and the exact access links one hour before we start in the comment section below (this should also trigger a reminder mail).

Timetable:

(19:00 Announcement of the access links)

20:00 Rolling start, chime in, say hello, introduce yourself off-the-record if you want to, organizational stuff
20:15 Livestream starts, optional on-the-record introductions, start of the seminar
22:00 (roughly) Wrap-up time, Livestream ends, optional break-out sessions

Subject to changes/additions.

About Satoshi's 21:

This is our in-depth, no-nonsense seminar series Satoshi's 21, which will take place every 21st of a month in various different locations (hackspace, co-working space, conference room, or similar), or online if circumstances so require.

Satoshi's 21 stands for:

• Every 21st of a month so that weekdays rotate
• 21 participants is the targeted and ideal working group size, but we could be more, we could be fewer
• And of course: honoring Bitcoin's monetary supply of 21 hundred trillion sats!

Contact us:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc
• Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/CYllaksSLloRHorac85fIQ

See you around!