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Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by basch on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:57PM (#35105517)
How is a stable coin a Ponzi scheme?
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:03AM (#35105550)
How is a stablecoin stable? They're stable until you get rugpulled.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by swalsh on Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:05AM (#35107973)
That was an Algorithmic Stablecoin. USDC is not, it was backed by dollars in banks with a 1:1 backing and 3rd party audited.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:00PM (#35110206)
"was backed" hehe
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:01PM (#35110210)
Many the mortgage bonds in the 2008 crisis were AAA or AA rated by a "third party". And they were dogshit.

Is it audited by the SEC or some "auditing firm"?

Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by basch on Saturday March 11, 2023 @06:15PM (#35113793)
I’ll repeat. How is a stable coin a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme pays a dividend or share of fake “revenue.” Stablecoins don’t make money, unless lent out.

Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by Analemma_ on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:17PM (#35110381)
How'd that work out for it.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by dd36 on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:05AM (#35105558)
When its assets don’t exist.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by Hizonner on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:12AM (#35105608)
That's not what a Ponzi scheme is.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by tylersmith on Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:23AM (#35106250)
I think there's a shockingly large number of people that think Ponzi scheme just means fraud.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by dd36 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @06:54PM (#35175824)
Then what is it? A ponzi scheme is inherently an embezzlement.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by pcthrowaway on Saturday March 11, 2023 @01:10AM (#35105929)
Is a bank a ponzi scheme if its assets don't exist also?

Like if a bank has $10B in customer deposits and one of their armored truck drivers escapes across the border with $2B, then some customers can't be paid back when they try to withdraw, does that make it a ponzi?

Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by re-thc on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:03AM (#35106420)
If you can't be paid at all it's not a Ponzi. The point is to rely on newer funds to pay the older requests.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by selestify on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:30AM (#35106558)
Banks also rely on “newer funds” (from loan payments) to pay “older requests” (customers withdrawing their deposits). When withdrawals from old requests rise so much that they can’t be covered by new funds, banks collapse.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by basch on Monday March 13, 2023 @03:13AM (#35132214)
Not just to pay old requests. To pay revenue sharing / dividends / interest to shareholders. A Ponzi scheme is repurposing inflows to appear as revenue to a fake business.
Re:Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend by senttoschool on Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:43AM (#35106333)
Plenty of stable coins have been proven to be ponzi schemes.

Terra/Luna anyone?