Comment

Comment by EGreg

Why are the authorities asking stablecoins to prove 100% reserves, also letting banks have fractional reserves closer to zero... and since 2020, actually let them have zero percent reserves: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Zero reserves means print as much as you want, subject only to the bank's own underwriters. The banks went and minted trillions of dollars in unbacked currency. Most of our fiat money supply comes from M2 and M3 money issued by banks.

Meanwhile, algorithmic stablecoins like DAI have 150% reserves, yet the government doesn't trust them as much as the banking system?

parent EGreg 4 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton