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Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by perihelions on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:03PM (#31462370)
This was their old marketing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431915

-"15% interest. No surprises."

Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by TheDudeMan on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:10PM (#31462437)
To be fair, the collapse of an algorithmic stablecoin is no surprise ;)
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by puranjay on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:27PM (#31462587)
I can tell you right now that there is absolutely no safe yield in crypto currently that goes beyond 4% on a “safe” stablecoin like USDC. For truly safe (as in, huge value locked, never been hacked), the yield is more like 1.5-2%

All the high yield is in algoponzis or new protocols that carry massive protocol risk

Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by elliekelly on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:55PM (#31462894)
There is absolutely no safe crypto. Full stop.
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by TheDudeMan on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:24AM (#31475340)
There is also no safe stock, right?

(No need to list the differences between stocks and cryptocurrencies.)

Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by ceeplusplus on Saturday May 21, 2022 @07:55PM (#31463426)
Eh, there are CeFi lenders like BlockFi/Gemini offering 7%. It's not zero risk, but the loans are partly collateralized and the borrowers are institutional entities who aren't your everyday scammer. It's better than unsecured corporate bonds in my view.
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by lmohseni on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:17PM (#31462504)
15% interest? No, surprises!
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by nrmitchi on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:05PM (#31462388)
Thank you! I was looking for that image (which I'd seen before) but couldn't find it.

Will be interesting to hear the argument "Well technically there were no surprises here, because customers should not be surprised when they lose all their money investing in risky assets. Therefore, technically, we did not lie."

Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by UncleEntity on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:13PM (#31462465)
> "15% interest. No surprises."

I’m honestly not surprised about how things turned out.

Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by gus_massa on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:25PM (#31462572)
Was it 15% monthly or 15% annual?
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by nrmitchi on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:36PM (#31462687)
Well 15% monthly woud be ~535% annual and at that point you're well past "highly unlikely" and into "I'm printing money in my 20k sqft basement" territory.
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by gus_massa on Saturday May 21, 2022 @08:33PM (#31463688)
We had a big Ponzi that exploded last month in Argentina (and extended to a few nearby countries). They promised a monthly interest from 7.5% to 20% (and IIRC they has even better offers for special "investors"). For example see https://www.ambito.com/informacion-general/generacion-zoe/le... autotranslation https://www-ambito-com.translate.goog/informacion-general/ge...
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by Terry_Roll on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:29PM (#31462618)
Dont rely on any websites & webpages existing like this link.

I can show you links where even the Wayback machine has removed content, most people will know how Google Cache has removed content, so print all copies and have hard copies safely stored away where they cant be destroyed. Houses will be broken into in order to destroy evidence, I know I've had it done to me!

This may be your only chance to out the criminals that run the world!

Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by gruez on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:33PM (#31462656)
>Houses will be broken into in order to destroy evidence, I know I've had it done to me!

>This may be your only chance to out the criminals that run the world!

Given that the screenshot is an (instagram?) ad, there's probably such a huge papertrail that can be subpoenaed that you don't have to worry about the founder breaking into your house to destroy the only copy of the marketing materials.

Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by midasuni on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:33PM (#31462660)
Maybe you could store it on the blcokchain…
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by fartcannon on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:52PM (#31462861)
That would quite legitimately work.
Re:We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service by Terry_Roll on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:55PM (#31462896)
I love the hubris people have in technology.