Miguel Anxo Bastos, economista: “El 'si quieres, puedes' es un mito que destruye vidas”
Pablo Gómez, CEO of Metlabs, joins economist Miguel Anxo Bastos on El Diario del Poder. La Vanguardia covers their conversation about money, technology, entrepreneurship and individual freedom.
Effort, entrepreneurship and digital money
The article follows Bastos’s arguments about personal effort, individual abilities and the limits of treating willpower as a guarantee of success. It also covers Bitcoin, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies, including his concerns about restrictions that programmable money could place on its users.
The monetary questions behind blockchain
These subjects also feature in Gómez’s writing for Metlabs. In his March 2026 article on central bank digital currencies, he distinguishes a direct liability of a monetary authority from privately issued stablecoins. The question is not simply whether money uses a digital interface: the issuer and the underlying monetary design are different.
His introduction to decentralised finance describes stablecoins as a means of exchange within applications built with smart contracts, including lending and asset exchanges. Those articles place the podcast in the context of his work on financial technology. The conversation with Bastos brings that technical perspective into a debate about institutions, property and the freedom to use money, rather than presenting the different instruments as interchangeable.