{"id":53127,"date":"2021-11-18T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53127"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:29:52","slug":"jordan-peterson-invests-in-bitcoin-after-talk-with-saifedean-ammous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/jordan-peterson-invests-in-bitcoin-after-talk-with-saifedean-ammous\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Peterson Invests in Bitcoin After Talk With Saifedean Ammous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The philosopher and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Jordan Peterson, said he \u201cbought some more Bitcoin\u201d after speaking with economist Saifedean Ammous on his podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My pleasure. Learned a lot. Bought some more Bitcoin. Inflation be damned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\/status\/1460441993264476163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed it. I learned a lot. I bought some more Bitcoin. Inflation be damned,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his conversation with Peterson, Ammous noted that the first cryptocurrency manages to preserve true decentralisation, since in its network \u201cthere are no insiders and no administrators.\u201d The author of the book \u201cA Short History of Money, or Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin\u201d called it \u201can immaculate conception.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBitcoin has only users \u2014 no administrators. No one has a master key. \u2026 Ultimately, what drew my attention to Bitcoin is that it is neutral money that no one can control,\u201d the economist said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In monetary policy, Ammous emphasised that, from the perspective of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-austrian-school-of-economics\">Austrian School of Economics<\/a>, money is a market product, and therefore government intervention is \u201cirrational.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cGovernment intervention in monetary affairs is irrational and cannot be successful for the same reasons centralized planning fails. It is also the primary cause of most economic problems that worry economists everywhere,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in May Ammous criticised Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tesla-halts-bitcoin-car-sales-and-roils-the-market\">to stop accepting Bitcoin for the sale of electric vehicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The philosopher and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Jordan Peterson, said he bought some more Bitcoin after appearing on his podcast with economist Saifedean Ammous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1799],"class_list":["post-53127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-saifedean-ammous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53129,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127\/revisions\/53129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}