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Re:SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploi... by viraptor on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:22AM (#27673611)
> You're grasping at straws when you imply people have piles of cash at home whom then "give" it to a bank.

Into an interest paying account - yes. A savings account like that may be the "don't even mention it" default for you and me. But not for:

- unbanked people in the US (~6%)

- and in the world (much larger https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/06/raw-data-unba...)

- people with non-interest-paying accounts for religious reasons

- people in countries where interest is ~0% or negative (https://dqydj.com/negative-savings-accounts/)

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