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The boundary between valuables and financial assets in SNA 2008: why gold and Bitcoin raise similar questions and need common answers (ESCoE DP 2021-12)

By: Richard Heys, Sam Hayes-Morgan, Matt Hughes, Alison McCrae, Pete Lee, Perry Francis, Michael Lyon, Robert Kent-Smith, Matthew Steel, Abi Casey

21 October 2021

The boundary between valuables and financial assets in SNA 2008: why gold and Bitcoin raise similar questions and need common answers (ESCoE DP 2021-12)

Cashing in: How should we measure gold and bitcoin within economic statistics

9 December 2020

By Richard Heys

7 min read time

Cashing in: How should we measure gold and bitcoin within economic statistics

Reviewing the boundary between valuables and financial assets in SNA 2008 in the light of Bitcoin and similar crypto-assets and the UK experience of non-monetary gold (ESCoE DP 2020-17)

By: Abi Casey, Sam Hayes-Morgan, Richard Heys, Matt Hughes, Pete Lee, Alison McCrae, Robert Kent-Smith, Matthew Steel

9 December 2020

Reviewing the boundary between valuables and financial assets in SNA 2008 in the light of Bitcoin and similar crypto-assets and the UK experience of non-monetary gold (ESCoE DP 2020-17)