On The Brink with Castle Island

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 cr