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 intro 01:23 precious metals and gold's role in monetary history 07:04 WTF happened in 1971 13:27 what is money 19:46 Austrian vs Keynesian 27:35 social data vs natural science 32:59 Bitcoin 39:30 intrinsic vs subjective value of Bitcoin 43:32 on enabling global collaboration 45:52 scaling blockchains 49:13 defining digital assets 51:53 potential of DAOs 59:07 insurance 1:01:23 rapid fire 1:04:02 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
Contact Stephen:
- Dasset https://dassetx.com/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenm/
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