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My understanding is that some stablecoin projects do that. The issue is greed, it’s too tempting to invest the money in something riskier and keep all of the returns. When you lose the money you have nothing to defend the peg with.


This can be easily solved via governmental certification.


Good idea! Maybe a note that attests that your 1 token is backed by government certification? What about making that note green, to make sure people understand that it is the real thing?


Yeah, but they wouldn't give a damn about a greenback-a-dollar, they'd probably spend it fast as they can.


This is an egregious example of statist overreach. The free market would never...oh wait, Binance has set a $0.70/UST floor price. Never mind.


Looks at inflation rate

Yes, cause the government is so much better at this stuff.


Yes, ultimately, the gold standard is the only way to stop arbitrary taxation AKA inflation.


Ah yes, the gold standard. Aka severely limiting worldwide economic growth until we dig more shiny rocks out of the ground.


As a taxpayer I certainly don't want my government wasting resources on such schemes.


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Actually I don't hate cryptocurrency, I just find it silly and pointless. Sort of like collecting and trading baseball cards.

I feel dumb for entirely unrelated reasons.




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