Lecture 2 in The Bitcoin Standard explains the problem money solves, how the solution shapes the desirable properties of money: salability across scales, space & time; why the latter property, expressed through hardness, is the critical feature of money & how it can be measured.

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Hardness really is the hinge. Money that holds salability across time changes everything

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The lecture isolates hardness—how difficult it is to produce more of the money—as the key feature that protects savers over long periods. That is the first-principles reason a fixed-supply asset exists.