Alex Jeser joins me to talk about his book, “Monetary Anarchy: The Separation of Money and State”. We discuss the origin of knowledge, how warfare benefits the state, the difference between democracy, anarchy and minarchy, and whether monetary anarchy is possible on the Bitcoin standard. 

Alex Jeser is an economist, author, and technology entrepreneur. 

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// OUTLINE // 
00:00:00 - Coming up 
00:00:33 - Intro 
00:02:06 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing 
00:02:52 - Alex Jeser’s Economic Background and Discovering Bitcoin 
00:06:18 - The Origin of Knowledge 
00:10:23 - Empiricism and Rationalism 
00:13:32 - What is Money? 
00:17:16 - Different Types of Money 
00:21:08 - What is Inflation? 
00:23:56 - Why Free Market Money Gets Outlawed? 
00:30:37 - Fractional Reserve Banking 
00:38:03 - Emergence and Purpose of Nation States 
00:48:52 - Is Democracy a Success or Failure? 
00:50:42 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite 
00:51:47 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet 
00:52:44 - How Warfare Benefits the State 
00:57:10 - Interstate Anarchy and Fiat System 
00:59:12 - Anarchy Based on Morals and Markets 
01:10:47 - Anarchy and Bitcoin 
01:17:22 - What is Minarchy? 
01:23:00 - True Democracy of Bitcoin 
01:26:15 - A World Without States 
01:29:08 - Bitcoin: An Incorruptible Economic Voting System 
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01:33:13 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet 
01:34:05 - Can the State Stop Bitcoin? 
01:38:52 - Strong Points of Bitcoin 
01:42:27 - Illustrating Monetary Anarchy 
01:47:36 - Does Monetary Anarchy Advance Civilization? 
01:52:15 - Where to Find Alex on the Internet

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