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BlockchainNZ Pod E06 with Stephen Macaskill on Economics, Money, and Bitcoin

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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Find Jeff:

Twitter https://twitter.com/Japple

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnijsse/

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Recorded at blockheight 746718. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

BlockchainNZ We provide New Zealand businesses and individuals opportunities for connecting, promoting and advancing in all things blockchain, crypto and decentralisation. We believe that by working together and leveraging our globally recognised brand of trust and integrity, New Zealand can become a key player in the move to a decentralised global ecosystem.