Stephen Macaskill is the CEO of Dasset, a trading platform for buying bitcoin and other digital assets. Before digital assets Stephen ran a precious metals company helping people maximize their savings and financial literacy. In this conversation we talk about precious metals and gold’s role in recent monetary history including Bitcoin; the definition of money and Austrian and Keynesian methodologies within economics; bitcoin and its intrinsic versus subjective value; spontaneous orders, and human cooperation through decentralized autonomous organizations.
Timestamps:
00:00 precious metals and gold’s role in monetary history
05:41 WTF happened in 1971
12:04 what is money
25:30 austrian economics
18:23 Austrian vs Keynesian
26:12 social data vs natural science
31:46 bitcoin
38:07 intrinsic vs subjective value of bitcoin
42:09 on enabling global collaboration
44:29 scaling blockchains
47:50 defining digital assets
51:53 potential of DAOs
57:44 insurance
1:00:00 rapid fire
1:02:43 fin
Some notes from the show:
what happened in 1971? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Turkish rare earths discovery https://www.wired.com/story/turkey-rare-earth-metals/
French try to redeem gold https://www.huffpost.com/entry/august-15-1971_b_4284327
Austrian methodology https://mises.org/library/methodology-austrian-school-economists-0
Keynes & rise of macroeconomics https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/keynesianeconomics.asp
tomayo https://www.newworld.co.nz/shop/product/5267101_ea_000nw
Bitcoin whitepaper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
spontaneous order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_order
coinmarketcap https://coinmarketcap.com/
Vitalik’s essay on DAOs https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i-1379644274
Whitehouse redefines recession https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1551349167674499073?s=20&t=i4KWmNn8oWiVhCt7MdvMVg
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Contact Stephen:
Dasset https://dassetx.com/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenm/
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Recorded at blockheight 746718. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
