1/ Watching #btc volatility & thinking about current use cases, I finally appreciate why @VitalikButerin says it's important to make a StableCoin. Ppl should be able to store value w/o taking on all this currency risk.
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2/ Obviously some users can hedge via futures, but if you're stashing money b/c you live in a current/potential kleptocracy (the Holocaust scenario) the CBOE is not an option.
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3/ As speculators we expect everyone to just join the hodl club, but that exemplifies the immaturity of the tech/us. Most users don't want to be speculators, so if using and speculating are commingled, that's bad for actual use & ultimately for our investment.
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4/ A club that won't let anyone in who doesn't want to gamble is going to end up being a club of gamblers, not the world new financial system. A good StableCoin is one possible answer.
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5/ Making one, however, without centralization or counterparty risk, is...non-trivial. But deeply fascinating if you're into monetarism & cryptoeconomics! Looking forward to continued community speculation on the topic.
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Replying to @patrissimo
On the topic of monetarism, cryptoeconomics, and the prospects of a stablecoin without counterparty risk: http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_20_04_05_harwick.pdf …
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Very good! I like your paper; the connection of money supply adjustments to intermediation / credit creation (even in decentralized systems) is important & not well integrated into the (smidgeon) of crypto research on stablecoins.
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