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Comment by arcticbull

Fractional reserve banking in the real economy is utterly irrelevant thanks to the FDIC backstopping a run. In the last [edit: 88] years nobody had lost a single penny to a bank run or default including 2008s WaMu default thanks to the FDIC.

Crypto fractional reserve like tether has no backstop and that’s a completely different beast. It’s what exacerbated the Great Depression.

As with all blockchain unless the state is 100% totally and utterly encapsulated within the blockchain, then it’s garbage in, garbage immutably recorded. Which is why the only thing you can do with crypto is currency and kitties.

parent arcticbull 5 years ago

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