Commodity coins could be a better long-term hedge than fiat stablecoins

2018-12-15 23:00

While fiat-backed stablecoins are the antithesis of crypto's original tenet to be immune to the inflationary and political forces that debase fiat, commodity-backed crypto could be a genuine innovation as a hedge against inflation and, indeed, fiat.

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Stablecoins: Are Fiat Crypto-currencies Going to Pass the Stress Test to Succeed?

The stablecoin market was once relatively simple. Very few substantial coins existed, and exchanges almost exclusively relied upon USDT (Tether) as their go-to pegged token to facilitate trade. But in 2018, there has been a proverbial explosion of interest in the creation of new coins pegged to something stable in value. Part of this increased […]

2018-10-24 00:54


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Decentralizing the Dollar: Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoins

Decentralizing The Dollar is a three-part series on stablecoins, each addressing one of the three key methods postulated for tying a stable cryptocurrency to a fiat currency. In Part One, we examined how TrueUSD might rectify the flaws in Tether; in Part Two we looked at Kowala, and algorithmic stablecoins; and in Part Three we’ll […] The post Decentralizing the Dollar: Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoins appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

2018-10-19 21:48


Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed

University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.

2018-9-13 18:07