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Europe wants to turn Digital Euro (CBDC) into a stablecoin(antongolub.substack.com)
18 points by AvG_DXB a day ago | 18 comments
latexr a day ago | parent | next [-]

What confusing writing.

Every sentence is a paragraph.

And look like disconnected ideas.

Like bullet points without bullets.

Exhausting to read.

Looks like memes written by LLMs.

Why do cryptocurrency-focused people tend to write like this?

M95D 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And acronyms everywhere.

add-sub-mul-div a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Cryptocurrency is the intersection of tech bros who think they know more than everyone else and finance bros who think they deserve more than everyone else. In this era of tech the bigger the opportunity, the worse the people who flock to it.

marcosdumay a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The goal of money is to be used for trade. All of the examples on the article are failures, and the market cap is at best useless information.

The EU at least had a honest attempt of making money, instead of a ponzi scheme.

wolvesechoes 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> The goal of money is to be used for trade.

Actually, to quantify debt.

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NoahZuniga a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The digital euro is just so bad

ranguna 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Care to elaborate why?

I used to think they'd use this to track citizens, but it seems like that's not the case at all, we'll even have offline transfers.

pjc50 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why does Europe want a stablecoin when it has PDS2 and near-instant clearing?

wolvesechoes 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is necessary if EU wants to stop relying on US payment companies.

ebalit 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It seems like wero [0] is making some progress on this front without relying digital euro or on crypto.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)

robertlagrant a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Why? I've never heard of it.

HelloUsername a day ago | parent [-]

Pretty good video explaining it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CzkVBXDhTwY

JumpCrisscross a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I recently got pitched stablecoins as a way to lower government borrowing costs. I’m sort of on board with this.

If I am investing $1mm of my own money, I care about the yield. If I’m investing $1mm of someone else’s money, and I don’t need to pay them a return, I mostly care about never losing it. This creates price-insensitive demand for safe assets. If you require those safe assets be government bonds, you’ve created pools of price-insensitive demand for your government’s debt.

Put another way, we’re financing our deficits with crypto bros. Compared with taxation, that seems like a win-win.

pjc50 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As with so many bits of crypto, I have to ask: who's taking the other side of this trade? Who wants their money held with no yield when they could have yield?

JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> who's taking the other side of this trade? Who wants their money held with no yield when they could have yield?

Dumb money, criminals, folks selling to the foregoing and a narrow slice of the technically curious.

ab5tract 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How is it “instead of”?

JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You’re quoting a phrase that never appears. That’s confusing.