1/ If you've studied the history of money under free banking sytsems (ie @lawrencehwhite1's work such as http://amzn.to/2Gt432p ), fiat currencies now being issued by competing private entities is delightfully nostalgic. (and good - it's an innovation whose loss was a loss).
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2/ USD are issued primarily by
@USTreasury, but now also by@Tether_to,@TrustToken,@bitshares. Yuan are issued primarily by the#PBOC, but also as#bitCNY. And the Yen will soon be issued not only by@bank_of_japan_e but also by@MUFGAmericashttps://cointelegraph.com/news/worlds-fourth-largest-bank-mufg-to-launch-own-cryptocurrency-in-2018 …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
3/ Like many types of competition, it counterintuitively turns out that free banking is
@nntaleb-style#antifragile. Yes, some issuers are bad (cough..Tether), and their notes trade below par (a critical market signal). But better occasional insolvency than constant debasement.2 replies 1 retweet 5 likesShow this thread -
4/ And in the digital world, the innovation benefits of competition between same-denominated currencies are huge, because so many more innovations are possible with e-cash. So the emergence of competing same-denominated coins is highly positive.
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5/ An interesting question for the emerging field I'll call "cryptomacroeconomics" (as opposed to cryptomicroeconomics, ie miner/attacker/user incentives): what will the effect of fiat-denominated cryptocurrencies be on that fiat's value?
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6/ Maybe they increase demand for cash (by increasing usefulness), but some will increase the supply (ie via issuance of currencies like
@therealbasecoin, who peg via algorithmic bond issuance, rather than offering conversion to/from full reserves).1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
7/ Which means, with truly epic irony, these currencies could get their value through (modest) inflation - ie stealing it from current cash-holders, just like central bank printing. Which is hilarious, counterintuitive, and yet flows straight from monetarist first principles.
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8/ That's life on the frontier - there's so much missing, which means there's so much to build, hence the appeal to builders - of technologies & teams, but also models & ideas. And analysis lags technology, so cryptomacroeconomists have, if anything, even more work ahead. Yay!
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