Which Money Is Crazier: The U.S. Dollar or Bitcoin? | Money For the Rest of Us Podcast

We compare the U.S. dollar with Bitcoin on their key attributes to determine which is better for transactions and preserving wealth, which is most absurd and which has serious flaws.
Topics covered include:
How are new U.S. Dollars and Bitcoin created
How much has the supply of each currency grown
How both the dollar and Bitcoin have had rule changes
Why Bitcoin transactions are faster than non-cash U.S. dollar transactions
Why both the dollar and Bitcoin require add-on layers to facilitate transactions
How tax treatment of a currency can encourage or discourage its use for payments
Why divisibility is a critical attribute of any currency
Why Bitcoin has been as volatile as the Russian ruble
Why Bitcoin is energy inefficient while having built-in incentives to use renewable energy
What will determine the long-term viability of Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar

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Show Notes
Federal Reserve Statistical Release: H.4.1 Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks, August 19, 2021
Check Processing—Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Gold Reserve Act of 1934—Federal Reserve History
Creation of the Bretton Woods System—Federal Reserve History
Financial Accounting Manual for Federal Reserve Banks, July 2021: Chapter 5. Federal Reserve Notes—Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Financial Statements: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; As of and for the Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and Independent Auditors’ Report
A Complete Guide to Understanding and Protecting Against Inflation—Money For the Rest of Us
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto—Bitcoin
What is a fork?—Coinbase
Mapping the Major Bitcoin Forks by Ashley Viens—Visual Capitalist
Total Circulating Bitcoin Chart—Blockchain
There’s Enough Bitcoin For Everyone by Paul Opoku—Nasdaq
Lightning Network: Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain Transactions
Crypto Crime Summarized: Scams and Darknet Markets Dominated 2020 by Revenue, But Ransomware Is the Bigger Story—Chainalysis
Americans' Spending on Illicit Drugs Nears $150 Billion Annually; Appears to Rival What Is Spent on Alcohol by Beau Kilmer—RAND Corporation
link rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">39% of PoW mining is powered by renewables – Cambridge University Cryptoasset study by Gareth Jenkinson—The Daily Chain
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index—Digiconomist
The Bitcoin vs Visa Electricity Consumption Fallacy by Carlos Domingo—Hacker Noon
El Salvador Readies Bitcoin Rollout With 200 ATMs for Conversion by Michael D McDonald—Bloomberg
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