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Comment by bArray

From my understanding, this only solves one issue - exchanges holding crypto assets.

I would expect an exchange to also hold traditional liquid money, which currently couldn't be captured by this. If you could get the US financial system onboard, maybe you could get them to maintain a 1:1 representation of a digital coin, but I don't see why they would be motivated to do so.

The next problem then is that you can't diversify your holdings beyond that of crypto, so you are completely trapped by the relatively unstable nature of crypto. One day you hold a billion meme coins worth one billion dollars, the next day it is worth zero.

parent bArray 4 years ago

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