My worst fear, regulators are afraid they will be irrelevant and will set out to destroy innovation and improvement to keep themselves relevant, all while claiming they are "protecting the public."
Remember this is a warning:
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
3/3
Quick follow-up:
In my conversations with current and former central bankers, they have stated that their "relevancy" is an important part of determining crypto regulation.
They are all in favor or progress, as long as they are at the center of it.
Bottom line, Tether is never redeemed, so the Trust is more or less irrelevant.
Stablecoins are a trading pairs and transfer tokens in wallets. They are not a money market funds like Tim Massad opined.
And this is what makes stablecoins so powerful, and worrisome to regulators/TradFi. They are backed by the same thing as the $$$, full faith and credit...of the crypto universe!
USDT's problem is its centralized. A decentralized stablecoin (DAI, LUSD) has more potential.
Last month the Fed said they had five yrs to create a digital currency.
Now Powell put out this video talking about stable coins and the Fed will have a report out on it this summer.
They are getting passed by the crypto world and have to move faster. 1/3
My early take.
A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) will not work.
To work it requires the Fed to take over the banking system (making it more centralized and subject to more top down control).
Otherwise it will accomplish nothing.
2/3
Bottom line, stablecoins (the concept, not any one in particular) are winning. The Fed sees the future reserve currency and it does not involve them.
I look forward to their rationakiztion to hold onto the past.
3/3
No coiners (most of which are rich CeFi-ers that see DeFi as a threat) are gloating about the decline in cryptoland.
Yes, the casino speculation in cryptos almost demanded this would happened (when and how impossible to predict).
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But if you really understand the space, it is a parallel financial system and is now getting this first real stress test. If it makes it through, it would be incredibly bullish.
2/6
Today is not the worst day ever (%24h loss). The last such days were March 2020.
What is different now is DeFI was non-existent in those days.
DeFi really took off in June 2020 and was $100B in size at the peak a few weeks ago. So, this is the first real "test" of DeFi.
3/6
Nothing to act on now ... but worth paying attention too.
The Seychelles is a African country of 97,000 off the coast of Tanzania. It is one of the richest countries in the world. The country is full of expensive cars and high fashion, think Beverly Hills.
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Seychelles has FULLY vaccinated over 60% of its population, thanks to its wealth. The country has been using the Chinese Sinopharm and AstraZeneca inoculations.
It leads the world with the highest parentage of a population fully vaxxed.
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But here is the concerning part ... Seychelles cases are spiking. Remember the majority of country has been vaxxed