{"id":18115,"date":"2020-12-15T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe7e800026c3"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:10:48","slug":"interview-niall-ferguson-on-bitcoin-and-financial-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/interview-niall-ferguson-on-bitcoin-and-financial-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Niall Ferguson On Bitcoin And Financial Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-in-asia.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"fsGmlzLroO4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Niall Ferguson On Bitcoin And Financial Evolution - Bitcoin In Asia\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fsGmlzLroO4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Listen To This Episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bitcoin-magazine\/id1459884105#episodeGuid=25dbe7f4-c560-4622-aba2-2a46d6de3188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7DjGkQyvX7naQj1MJChEya?si=2KJS6bLVTheOzMV10iduDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cDovL2JpdGNvaW5tYWdhemluZS5idGMubGlic3lucHJvLmNvbS9yc3M\/episode\/MjVkYmU3ZjQtYzU2MC00NjIyLWFiYTItMmE0NmQ2ZGUzMTg4?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjw0q75187tAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Libsyn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On this episode of <em>Bitcoin Magazine<\/em>\u2019s \u201cBitcoin In Asia,\u201d Niall Ferguson joins host John Riggins for a wide-ranging conversation about Bitcoin and the evolution of finance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also the author of 15 books, including \u201cThe Ascent of Money\u201d and writes a regular column for Bloomberg Opinion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Ferguson discussed his recent <em>Bloomberg<\/em> piece \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-11-29\/bitcoin-and-china-are-winning-the-covid-19-monetary-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin Is Winning the Covid-19 Monetary Revolution<\/a>\u201d and discussed the history of financial evolution, including how the current iteration of that evolution is playing out between China and the U.S. and how he views Bitcoin in that context. He also discussed the qualities that make Bitcoin a significant advance and the broader importance of decentralization and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Ferguson through his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niallferguson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nfergus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter account<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author, professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the U.S., China and Bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3386,"featured_media":17641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2480,3155,543],"class_list":{"0":"post-18115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-bitcoin-in-asia","9":"tag-niall-ferguson","10":"tag-video"},"author_data":{"id":3386,"name":"John Riggins","nicename":"john-riggins","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/john-riggins-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bitcoin-in-asia.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}