Jimmy Song

How Bitcoin changes incentives

Is our financial system a treadmill designed to make saving impossible? Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song explains how a new kind of money offers a way off.

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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Why a level monetary playing field matters for everyone
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Why a level monetary playing field matters for everyone

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.

How dollar hegemony and inflation create unfairness
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How dollar hegemony and inflation create unfairness

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.

Understanding Bitcoin's core economic incentive system
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Understanding Bitcoin's core economic incentive system

Economic incentives and the Bitcoin network

Bitcoin provides fairness and opportunity for the oppressed
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Bitcoin provides fairness and opportunity for the oppressed

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.

Understanding decentralization and its link to freedom
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Understanding decentralization and its link to freedom

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.

Bitcoin's core properties are decentralized digital scarcity
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Bitcoin's core properties are decentralized digital scarcity

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.

How Bitcoin Script enables programmable money
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How Bitcoin Script enables programmable money

A Technical Introduction to Bitcoin's 2nd Layer- The Lightning Network

The evolution of money and the progress of digital assets
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The evolution of money and the progress of digital assets

Why Bitcoin Matters: Freedom, Progress and Fairness.

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