So if stablecoins go mainstream and they become UoA and MoE then anyone can spin up a code and create an exchange for swapping between BTC and stables etc, so currently to off ramp into dollars euros etc you need to go thru a regulated exchange, is this why the government is really delaying the adoption of stablecoins because they know the banking sector could lose control of the money?
I'm not into stablecoins but the sentiment amongst normies is that stables will be adopted first
If you earn, buy groceries and pay rent in stables, you would never need a regulated exchange or a bank again
You can swap in and out of BTC on a DEX, which is just code and the government loses its choke point
The loss of surveillance KYC/AMLThe loss of surveillance KYC/AML
If everyone is using DEXs there is no middleman to report to the state IRS etc
The choke pointThe choke point
Currently you need to turn Bitcoin into fiat to buy a house or food and the state waits at the exit door (Canadian truckers)
The threat to fractional reserve bankingThe threat to fractional reserve banking
Generally stablecoin companies hold full reserves, if everyone starts pulling their paper fiat out of legacy banks and using a stablecoin company, the banks lose their deposit base and can't lend out and this is what they're afraid of imo
Loss of monetary policy controlLoss of monetary policy control
If the fed doesn’t have vision of the money, how would they set interest rates, how would that affect inflation
The banker's checkmateThe banker's checkmate
The banks/state will want to capture the stablecoin companies, seeing as they're all centralised this is easy for the state
Or they may force shops and businesses to only accept kyc'd wallets
Actually on this, if governments forced retailers to only accept kyc'd wallets, I wonder if some shops would accept non kyc stables under the counter, thereby creating the same system we have today, with credit cards and cash, a black and white economy but totally digital
Obviously this is a destination on the road map, I think stables with come first and Bitcoin will always be the elephant in the room that people dont get until they are forced to
I feel like optimism is going to tell me I've just described Hyperbitcoinization with a shitcoin wrapper 🤣🤣
I do hope we can trade BTC/CBDCs in a non-custodial way, like BTC/USDT currently at SideSwap. The problem will be if those CBDCs come programmed to expire or to be spent only on food etc. We shall see and adapt. One thing is clear, CBDCs are coming, because the governments are running out of buyers of their debt. #1429176
But about Digital Euro they say it won't be blockchain based. Sounds like a KYC account at the ECB. So they can treat all the incoming transfers as taxable gain unless proven otherwise.
I remember during covid, the British were trying to build a track and trace app
apple and Google offered to build it
The British said, no thanks, we’ll build it ourselves
Months later, after wasting millions on a version that was eventually scrapped anyway, they had to go back to the tech giants
It perfectly illustrates the incompetence of the state
I'm not saying they'll use the rippletards tech or ethtards but whatever happens it will be entertaining to watch 🤣🤣
I bet people will exit that crap to cash asap, remembering how credit cards fared in the blackouts. So the state must abandon cash soon after.
Y'ou'd Like to think so, but the vast majority will be glued to their bread and circuses
Yeah, probably