• Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    People are dumb. Currency cannot work if it’s not used as a currency. Cryptobros “investing” in it are the dumb ones, trading currency as it’s stocks or something (not to mention, that stocks are dumb as well). How can it not be volatile?

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      Blame the first fork. Bitcoin Cash would have had a sticker on every cash register but wall street came in and stanned the lightning network now transaction fees are impossible to use it other than a fancy money gram.

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        Most people will never really understand what happened back then, it’s so disheartening, it’s like society was just about to reach up to the stars, and was curb stomped back to the ground.

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          What makes them stable?

          They are backed by treasury bonds

          And how has that stability been more stable than tech stocks?

          They are comparable to other company bonds. Much more stable than shares.

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            They are backed by treasury bonds

            Except when they aren’t.

            So many examples of stable coins just being a delayed rug-pull that collapses as soon as people pull out their money and it turns out that they aren’t backed by anything at all.

            At best they work like putting regular money in a bank. At worst they work like putting money in a “bank” but the bank is some shady anonymous dude from the internet with no oversight whatsoever.

            You don’t trust a bank because it could be mismanaged and greedy bankers could steal your money? Why on earth would you trust an anonymous rando more?

            It’s like those people who don’t trust “big pharma” and instead eat supplements they bought from India via the internet by the kilogram.