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Jun 20, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
1/ Kudos to Mark Carney @bankofengland for announcing tonight that stablecoin cryptocurrencies like @Libra_ will be able to store reserve assets on deposit directly at the central bank ft.com/content/148c37… 2/ The ability to deposit funds directly at the central bank is typically restricted to commercial banks. Allowing crypto companies to have this same access would be a big change.
Feb 22, 2019 22 tweets 8 min read
1/ We just published our massive 140-page 2019 stablecoins report. Here are some tl;dr highlights
blog.blockchain.com/2019/02/20/int… @blockchain 2/ Let’s kick things off with two correct calls we made in the 2018 report, starting with our forecast that there would be a “dampening of some of the enthusiasm for algorithmic stablecoins”. See for example @basisprotocol demise in late-Q4.