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Re:Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev by jameslk on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:39PM (#16026485)
I could imagine the current exchanges becoming banks, in the disruptive sense. What's stopping them from creating interest-earning savings accounts and loaning out on a fractional reserve basis? Seems like we'll be back where we were a century ago, bank runs and all.
Re:Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev by QAPereo on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:25PM (#16026766)
The governments of the world?
Re:Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev by pjc50 on Friday December 29, 2017 @04:49AM (#16028634)
"Tether" is effectively a fractional-reserve "currency" in use by bitfinex.
Re:Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev by thomasdub on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:29AM (#16028936)
There isn't much evidence that Tether Limited is indeed keeping a reserve of USD for each Tether printed [0]. They are minting hundreds of millions of Tethers and there are a lot of skeptics out there who don't believe that they have billions of USD in a bank. [0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4133884-bitcoin-additional-...
Re:Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev by erikpukinskis on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:26AM (#16029875)
That’s what fractional reserve means.