I talk with Hubertus Hofkirchner, an economist and entrepreneur from Austria.
Hubertus hosts the monthly Austrian Economics Salon at Vienna's Hayek Institute and he shares some fascinating insight into the nature of base money and credit money, how we can understand these from a Bitcoin and Austrian economics perspective as well as what he sees as the next step for growing the Bitcoin circular economy.
Hubertus is a key figure in developing the Bitcredit Protocol, an open-source initiative focussed on building a flexible credit money layer on top of Bitcoin for enabling businesses to finance working capital needs, using bills of exchange, e-cash, and the proof of the work of the real economy.
Another bullshit crap "on top of Bitcoin"... why people fall again and again for these scams?
2014 hype-cycle's scam-narrative: 1000 alternative non-Bitcoin uses for "the blockchain"
2017 hype-cycle's scam-narrative: 1000 alternative Bitcoin-like "blockchains" with the same use
2021 hype-cycle's scam-narrative: Bitcoin as SoV and 1000 "tokens" on top of a couple of other "blockchains" for "defi", "stablecoin" and "NFT" uses
2025 hype-cycle's scam-narrative: Bitcoin as SoV&MoE and 1000 "L2s" on top of Bitcoin's "blockchain" to improve that use
2029 hype-cycle's realization: Maybe we should have just stacked sats all along?
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