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Strictly speaking, stablecoins don’t take funds out of the banking system. One way or another, these dollars will usually end up back in banks. What banks wind up with, though, could be something very different: the kinds of big, uninsured deposits that make some people nervous.
Who are these people? They should only realise what goes in comes out but it's fiat that will keep serving the system.
Ahhmm! It's not the system that's nervous.....
Under proposed guidelines of versions of the Genius Act, stablecoin issuers can hold reserves in bank accounts. They can also buy things such as U.S. Treasurys, which moves cash to the accounts of the sellers of those assets. They can even essentially lend cash to banks, as part of so-called repurchase agreement transactions, as money-market funds often do.
So banks are nervous scared to death! Circle and Tether will replace banking???
I won't be much surprised and would enjoy if they did. But there's no chance that is gonna happen for Fiat will be fiat and stablecoins don't change anything. Fiat money will still be printed minted without any backing up or it will not stable the inflation as is the name .... Fiat is doomed....
paper money and stablecoins are same shit....
"money that is easy to produce is no money at all, and easy money does not make a society richer; on the contrary, it makes it poorer by placing all its hard‐earned wealth for sale in exchange for something easy to produce." — Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
30 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 17h
So banks are nervous scared to death! Circle and Tether will replace banking???
Yes, essentially stablecoins will wind up killing retail / commercial banks for the most part. We are moving back to full-reserve banking.
The lack of any meaningful interest payments from your checking account is exasperated by very low reserve requirements.
  • Current Bank = Reserve Requirement of say 50/1. Gets a $1 deposit. Buys .02 Treasury. Earns interest on .02 Treasury and allocates a portion of that back to depositor.
  • Stablecoin Bank = Reserve Requirements of 1/1 by law. Gets a $1 deposit. Buys $1 of US Treasury. Earns interest on $1 Treasury and allocates a portion of that back to depositor.
The net-result is as follows:
  • Depositors will receive more in interest than they currently do.
  • The gov prefers Stablecoin banks to Current banks by 50x because they buy 50x as much treasuries.
Result:
  • The retail system will pivot to stablecoin banking
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What exquisite timing, sir! #1006974
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I was about to say the same on your post, sir! Just got into something and forgot to write a comment there.
I think FT and WSJ both are mincing, mimicking, milking each other more than usual these days.
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they're getting their marching orders from the same source, no doubt.
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24 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 16h
Which source is that?
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very unclear. I'd like to know who's behind everything
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 12h
I've been telling myself for years now that if only I were a wefboi I could just blame everything on them and stop thinking about things.
But I think that these things are a little more complicated than just blaming everything on Davos.