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Lyn Alden
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Stablecoins have a lot of shortcomings, but the vast majority of people who complain about the existence of stablecoins themselves have dollar or euro bank accounts and thus aren’t the target user anyway.

Overall, stablecoins are basically offshore dollar bank accounts for people in Argentina, Nigeria, and dozens of other countries with less reliable currencies.
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Deleted Account · 91w
Like an escape, right?!
Diacone Frost · 91w
people who says that bitcoin fails when it's not used 100% in full self-custody don't really understand the reality of unbanked poleople.
nobody · 91w
Having bitcoin means short on fiat(stablecoin)
Japhyrider · 91w
This point really highlights the huge gap between the bleeding edge of the tech and the reality of the people in the world that need this technology the most. We’re all well and good looking at ordinals or whatever, but what about Juan and his family in Venezuela that can’t help but go backwards...
Português Sem Passaporte · 91w
In Brazil people who buy and sell gadgets from China (special “alternative” markets) are using and accepting USDT, as is easy to transfer to China. 😂 It’s good for them because the shop owner, who keep the value in the same currency they pay for instead of keep in BRL, then convert to USD a...
Nitemarekhawk · 91w
Stablecoins has some use cases especially if you are debank for sure. When I was debunk I used stablecoins for a while and they worked well
ShiShi21m · 91w
Stabelcoins are going to get people rekd eventually, it's probably a false sense of security.
nostrich · 91w
Stable coins end up inflating away the underlying dollars that the stablecoins track. Its fiat tracking fiat. Stablecoins are OK to use as currency as long as people realise theyre all going to zero.
zebra · 91w
because of ukraine-russia war no one can send money between countries in normal way. but there are lot of relatives on both sides. I have friends who's parents still in crimea. so they buy usdt here in ukraine send them and they sell it to the local currency. that is the first use case. second - her...
Joss · 91w
....and they're pretty efficient for USD remittances. You can easily move your money across the globe for sub-75 basis points, instantly. Not bad for low-value payments in comparison to the average of 620 bps.
SPA (Super Phat Arrow) · 91w
But why do they need a Blockchain? Tether could just run a database. It would be free to transact and super fast.
Storm · 90w
are stablecoins censorship resistant in any meaningful way?
R3b3l - The last Samurai · 90w
Agree. Stablecoins have a lot of shortcomings but they still are very useful for us in Argentina for example and far better than remaining options. They are also more inclusive. Offshore account are not for everyone while stable coins are!