Sorry I didn't see your message until 10 days later. Did you know that the internet is worldwide? I do use an e-Transfer to transfer cash in Canada but more than likely, a transfer on the web will need to be done internationally. A stablecoin is a way to make sure the value is secured, at least as much as what it's backed on and the company holding it, for the duration of the transaction.
Any Canadian Exchange (and not a specific provider) could hold that stablecoin and many people will do arbitrage over it which will make sure I will be able to buy it easily for a minimum of fee.
That's specifically for me as a Canadian in a first world country too. A stablecoin allow that in ANY country, no need to do a case by case.
There isn't a single country in the world today where you can't spend a US dollar. Canadians will happily take them, especially at a 1:1 exchange rate.
Having spent some time in YT, I've found Canadians to be extremely agreeable. If you opened your wallet in a shop in Dawson City and said "Drat, I only have USD. Can you work with me?" I can pretty much guarantee they'll take your money - perhaps at a small discount to compensate them for the trouble.
I've traveled pretty far and wide. You really have to look hard (or piss someone off) before they'll reject USD. It spends easily.
The strongest argument I think I can construe from your statement is that every country has at least one place where you can spend a US dollar but I don't think that's very useful.
If you bring a 20 USD bill to Europe, head to the center of a major city and try to spend it, I think you'll have a pretty hard time handing it to a shopkeeper. You'll have trouble spending it at all save for exchanging it for the local currency and handing that to a shopkeeper.
I could see a decent amount of usage for dApp developers or anyone who wants micro transactions on their platform. That being said, “stablecoin” is probably quite useless outside of that very narrow use case.
Fair point. What I’m really interested in seeing is if they can maintain their peg.
This is not solving a problem that isn’t otherwise solved except money laundering and skirting AML/KYC rules. Look I may well be wrong, but can you suggest a use case I haven’t considered?