Re:Coinbase Drops Promise of Token’s Cash Backing That Wasn’...
by jameshart on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @12:57PM
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That’s an absolutely fascinating Wikipedia rabbit hole. I would pay good money to read a Neal Stephenson book set among Michigan wildcat bankers and railroad venture capitalists in the 1830s…
You can. It's called a 'bank' and they're heavily regulated.
Instead, what crypto has are wildcat banks. You've never heard that term because when they existed, 150 years ago, "[b]ank closures and outright scams regularly occurred, leaving people with worthless money."[1] Sound familiar?
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking