| ▲ | troad 11 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I am outside the US. Many of my assets are in USD and USD-denominated securities. I've never touched a stablecoin. Waiting to hear what "most people outside the US" are supposed to need those stablecoins for. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mothballed 11 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Most people don't realize they're inside a plexiglass shielded financial jail until they try to do something like wiring money for some legal activity in someplace spicy or on the FATF grey list. If you fall into the middle bands of uses, or in the upper class that can just bend or make the rules, then the financial system is well oiled and it looks like the people questioning it are just cranks. It's true that a lot of those in the outer bands are criminals but others are things like "buying a truck to build an orphanage for starving Iraqi children just outside of terrorist territory" or "wanted an investment visa in some corrupt island paradise and as it turns out no bank will open up account for purposes of 'international wires to the Comoros' " | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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