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Re:DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion by hrhrhrhrhr on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:19PM (#29641618)
If you believe that the value of Bitcoin is going to go up, it makes sense to lock is as a collateral and spend the borrowed fiat instead of selling the Bitcoins.
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Re:DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion by majormajor on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:53PM (#29641968)
Is there a part of the system that keeps working even if the value of bitcoin stops (being believed to keep) going up all the time?

If ETH or some other new token takes more and more mindshare from btc isn’t that a big inflationary pressure on the crypto ecosystem as a whole? More tokens = less valuable tokens.

At some point buy the dip will turn into cash out.

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Re:DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion by hrhrhrhrhr on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:52PM (#29642580)
If the value of Bitcoin stops going up, sooner or later your debt grows larger than the amount you were allowed to borrow and your collateral gets liquidated by someone who implemented the fastest liquidator bot.

https://docs.aave.com/developers/guides/liquidations

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