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Mitchell Nicholson (DACS Conduit) on leaving central banking for Bitcoin (EP.135)

On The Brink with Castle Island

Release Date: 10/07/2020

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Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: French Hill wins the nomination to chair the House Financial Services Committee Riot Platforms, a bitcoin mining company, the intention to raise $500 million via a convertible note offering. The proceeds will be used to acquire additional bitcoins, and for general corporate purposes. MicroStrategy another 21,550 bitcoin for roughly $2.1 billion. Circle and Binance a partnership with the goal of expanding the reach of Circle's USDC stablecoin across Binance's trading, saving, and payments platforms....

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Matthew Le Merle and Mitch Mechigian of Blockchain Coinvestors return to the show. In this episode we run through the Blockchain Coinvestors 2025 Predictions for the digital asset industry. To learn more about Blockchain Coinvestors visit their . To view the full Blockchain Coinvestors 2025 Predictions webinar visit this .

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Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Bitcoin finally hits $100k Our reflections on 100k BTC Declaring victory Machinsky pleads guilty Rep French Hill pledges to investigate Operation Choke Point Trump nominates Paul Atkins for SEC Chair Hawk Tuah memecoin fiasco Sponsor notes: Coin Metrics State of the Network: Contextualizing staking yields, inflation, and network economics on Ethereum & Solana

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Lorien Gabel, the founder and CEO of joins the show. In this episode we discuss: The latest developments at Figment. Post-election impact on the general crypto markets and the staking category. How Figment is approaching the institutional staking market opportunity. Staking in the context of investment products. Evolving ecosystems like Eigen Layer, Babylon and Bitcoin Layers 2s. The stablecoin market. To learn more about Figment visit

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Mitchell Nicholson is the founder of DACS Conduit and formerly an economist at the Bank of Canada. Mitchell's views are his own and not those of the Bank of Canada. In this episode:

  • His path to joining the Bank of Canada
  • Why he chose to start his career in central banking
  • Mitchell's work on the Band of Canada Bitcoin awareness surveys
  • Why the Bank of Canada put resources to the Bitcoin awareness surveys
  • Mitchell's masters thesis on Bitcoin
  • How covering Bitcoin was part of Mitchell's mandate at the Bank of Canada
  • Their reaction to Quadriga
  • How Crypto Twitter helped was useful to Mitchell during his time at the bank
  • What it's like being a Bitcoin enthusiast working at a central bank
  • Crypto penetration among Bank staff
  • How Mitchell applied lessons from traditional finance to his analysis of Bitcoin
  • Mitchell's thoughts on the legitimacy of Tether
  • Comparing the risk profiles of single and multi collateral Dai
  • Lessons that Bitcoiners can take from central banking
  • Whether central banks should be concerned about crypto-dollarization
  • The prospects for CBDCs
  • Why the public sector may not be able to create a true digital cash with strong privacy assurances
  • What a more restricted digital form of central bank money might look like
  • Mitchell's view of the true killer app of the crypto industry
  • Mitchell's new project now that he has left the BoC
  • The one big gap Mitchell has identified in the crypto industry
  • The likely effect of the rise of crypto markets on central banking

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