Saifedean Ammous is a Bitcoin-focused economist and author whose book The Bitcoin Standard brought Austrian economics and the case for Bitcoin to a mainstream global audience. Saifedean Ammous's Twitter Score is 242 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,694 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Saifedean Ammous published The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking in 2018, and has since expanded his catalog with The Fiat Standard, The Gold Standard, and Principles of Economics. His books have collectively sold more than a million copies across 78 editions in 39 languages. He works at Saifedean.com and hosts The Bitcoin Standard Podcast, where he covers monetary theory, Austrian economics, and Bitcoin. He previously worked at Lebanese American University as a professor of Economics.
Saifedean Ammous serves as an economic advisor to the Government of El Salvador and to the Bitcoin Office of El Salvador, advising President Nayib Bukele on Bitcoin integration. Saifedean Ammous has 421,827 followers as of July 2026 and has published 90,036 posts. He has been mentioned by 1,068 accounts a total of 6,032 times.
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