Jimmy Song
How Bitcoin changes incentives
#1about 4 minutes
Why Bitcoin is an essential tool for human rights
Bitcoin provides a censorship-resistant way to fund activists in authoritarian regimes where traditional financial systems fail or are weaponized against them.
#2about 11 minutes
How fiat currency erodes personal savings and incentives
Constant monetary expansion devalues savings, forcing individuals into high-cost assets like real estate or promoting materialism over long-term value creation.
#3about 11 minutes
How cheap debt gives large companies an unfair advantage
The Cantillon effect provides large corporations with access to cheap loans, enabling them to eliminate competition through underpricing, talent hoarding, and acquisitions.
#4about 9 minutes
How money printing leads to government inefficiency
The ability to print money creates a moral hazard, leading to wasteful spending, rent-seeking, and a complete disconnect from market price signals.
#5about 7 minutes
How the US dollar standard disadvantages developing nations
The global Cantillon effect, stemming from the dollar's reserve status since Bretton Woods, systematically drains wealth from developing countries and creates systemic fragility.
#6about 2 minutes
Bitcoin fixes the root cause of misaligned incentives
By providing a politically neutral money, Bitcoin realigns incentives at every level of society, from the individual to the global stage.
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How dollar hegemony and inflation create unfairness
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Understanding Bitcoin's core economic incentive system
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Understanding decentralization and its link to freedom
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Bitcoin provides fairness and opportunity for the oppressed
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Bitcoin's core properties are decentralized digital scarcity
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