TL;DR
Tether alone now owns extra US authorities debt than main nations like Germany, the UAE, and Australia — they usually’re not solely making the most of 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, properly — stablecoins are kinda like that.
The main stablecoin, Tether, simply reported its earnings and have reeled in $5.2 billion of revenue up to now this yr.
(How? By taking a small proportion of the cash invested into their coin, and re-investing it to eek out a revenue — large financial institution vitality).
Right here’s why that is necessary, and more likely to develop:
The US authorities generates money by promoting IOU’s (usually to different nations) with set rates of interest — and to those different nations, it’s a strong deal, trigger the US is seen in the identical gentle because the Lannisters (from Recreation of Thrones):
They all the time pay their money owed.
Drawback is…
There’s solely a lot US debt that different nation states can/are keen to purchase — and the US is without end hungry for contemporary money.
Stablecoins are the proper instrument for extending demand for US debt — they improve the attain of the US greenback by permitting customers wherever/in every single place to purchase US {dollars}, as a substitute of their (typically much less dependable) native currencies.
And this ain’t some hairbrained idea!
It’s already occurring in real-time. Tether alone now owns extra US authorities debt than main nations like Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.
(Shortly driving blockchain adoption within the course of).
We like to see it.
