[HN Gopher] Crypto's Last Man Standing
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Crypto's Last Man Standing
 
Author : stevenjgarner
Score  : 18 points
Date   : 2022-07-05 22:20 UTC (39 minutes ago)
 
web link (www.economist.com)
w3m dump (www.economist.com)
 
| woah wrote:
| It's funny to see the Economist try to view crypto through a
| traditional finance lens. The companies rescued by SBF are
| idiotic, promising to provide stable returns using extremely
| risky investment strategies. They are the bottom feeders of
| crypto, as well as being one of the most boring things about it.
| The Economist seems to want to make crypto reporting part of
| their purview- why don't they look at some of the interesting
| developments such as AMMs, algorithmic stablecoins, DAOs, etc?
 
  | pru567 wrote:
  | Aren't algo-stablecoins a refuted concept after IronFinance and
  | Terra/Luna?
 
    | bhouston wrote:
    | Refuted means you can conclusive prove something. You can
    | only say these attempts at algorithmic stablecoins failed but
    | it doesn't mean they are destined to always fail. The devil
    | is in the details and honestly Terra was run incompetently
    | and for greed rather than as a true professional endeavor.
 
    | clpm4j wrote:
    | There are still some notable people in crypto who want to see
    | the concept succeed. I imagine we'll see at least a few more
    | try (and probably blow up) before they get regulated out of
    | existence.
 
      | lumost wrote:
      | The concept is pretty interesting if there were real assets
      | behind the coin. Problem is you would need a good
      | counterparty... which means you need a good custodian...
      | which means you might as well just use the counterparty and
      | custodian.
      | 
      | The only real benefit of the coin in this case would be
      | programming derivatives without further intermediate
      | custodians and counter parties. This could be useful for
      | some back office finance activities outside of scams.
 
| stevenjgarner wrote:
| Archived : https://archive.ph/Q3S7D
 
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