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Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse

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Re: Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse

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You share a link to a tweet with a phot of an ATM. What is your point? What do you think it true anti-fragility in a system? Something that is built form the ground-up in a regulatory too-big-to-fail environment, or something that starts from the wilderness, gets beaten down multiple times, yet grows back up stronger than before. That is true antifragility.

I quoted the point. The hubris of Ethereum where software bugs result in the loss of money is just astounding. While obviously banking software can have bugs as well, the regulations make the consequences much, much less severe. With Ethereum, one bug, money is gone and you are done for. And as we learned, often the money is gone to North Korea. That's what hubris and cryptobros brought upon us: they made a funnel of…

Not sure where the idea that "hubris" is what causes these bugs that result in loss of funds. Sounds like a very subjective take.

Yes, it's costly to build an anti-fragile system. This is not a surprise to anyone.

Our current monetary system is not anti-fragile. We saw it in 2008. Because of these regulation safeguards you mention, moral hazard appeared and true safety has never been achieved.

Now to be clear, I am not saying this is the only way to build a monetary system. It's just one way.

>often the money is gone to North Korea. another flavored, subjective take. You link to one such case.

You are using multiple logical fallacies in your comment, I would re-evaluate what you actually want to discuss/learn and then respond accordingly. Currently it just seems like you are angry at something.

Re: Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse

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You’re thinking about USDP, if I am not mistaken. BUSD is Binance dollar.

It's "Binance Dollar" but it's issued by Paxos. Though it isn't like the first person claimed, the most trusted among the community are DAI and USDC.

Wow, I didn't know that BUSD is also issued by Paxos, thank you.

Re: Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse

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: D Being an economist does not mean you automatically know how Circle (a payments company based in the US) issues the ERC-20 token that is called "USDC", or how the redemptions for that work. You can read about it here: https://www.circle.com/en/usdc and here https://www.centre.io/usdc You can see centralized and decentralized exchanges with USDC liquidity here: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/usd-coin#markets

This is like suggesting that a mechanic should read some car's owner's manual in order to learn how internal combustion engines work. Look, don't try derail the conversation. Your claim is that in the event that the issuer of USDC would fail to redeem the tokens, you could still redeem them elsewhere. Explain how that would work.

Okay I think I see what you're saying better now - you're talking about the long term if such thing happens while I was purely thinking "in the moment".

Sorry for the tone, internet discussion can sometimes spin off quite fast just because its a pseudonymous environment. Have a great day!

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It is indeed a taxable event. People who exchange crypto for “stable”coins are generally doing so to stay out of the KYC banking realm so they can lie about their transactions to their country’s tax authorities.

In the UK, it is only a taxable event when the coin is exchanged to a "readily convertible asset", i.e. Bitcoin, Mainnet ETH.

All currencies are readily convertible assets by definition.

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Also in France swap between crypto is not a taxable event ( https://koinly.io/guides/crypto-tax-france/ )

Excuse my scepticism, but I'd like to hear a lawyer confirm that.

Cool, but do you think people paying taxes always go to lawyers for that?
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