Stablecoins: Boring? Yes. Driving the Mass-Adoption of Crypto? Also Yes.

TL;DR

• Tether alone now owns extra US authorities debt than main international locations like Germany, the UAE, and Australia — and so they’re not solely benefiting from it, however driving blockchain adoption within the course of.

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You already know these boring companies you hear about once in a while that completely print cash?

E.g. Hunt Brothers Pizza — the gasoline station pizza enterprise that makes $540M a yr.

Yeah, nicely — stablecoins are kinda like that.

The main stablecoin, Tether, simply reported its earnings and have reeled in $5.2 billion of revenue to this point this yr.

(How? By taking a small share of the cash invested into their coin, and re-investing it to eek out a revenue — large financial institution power).

Right here’s why that is necessary, and more likely to develop:

The US authorities generates money by promoting IOU’s (usually to different international locations) with set rates of interest — and to those different international locations, it’s a strong deal, trigger the US is seen in the identical mild because the Lannisters (from Sport of Thrones):

They at all times pay their money owed.

Downside is…

There’s solely a lot US debt that different nation states can/are keen to purchase — and the US is perpetually hungry for recent money.

Stablecoins are the right instrument for extending demand for US debt — they enhance the attain of the US greenback by permitting customers wherever/all over the place to purchase US {dollars}, as an alternative of their (typically much less dependable) native currencies.

And this ain’t some hairbrained idea!

It’s already taking place in real-time. Tether alone now owns extra US authorities debt than main international locations like Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.

(Shortly driving blockchain adoption within the course of).

We like to see it.