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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by aetherspawn on Thursday September 25, 2025 @07:58PM (#45380879)
Is US dollar backed a good thing? At this point we should be backing things on gold, platinum.

The Australian dollar has gone up about 20% vs the American dollar since Trump.

Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by cj on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:07PM (#45380949)
A basket of currencies and value stores seems like it would be the least volatile.
Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by JumpCrisscross on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:10PM (#45380982)
> basket of currencies and value stores seems like it would be the least volatile

For whom? The least volatile asset relative to dollars are dollars. The moment you start building a money-market fund you have novel risks, from credit to rates and FX. (And, in the extreme, legal.)

Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by cj on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:04PM (#45381348)
> For whom

For people outside of the US.

Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by JumpCrisscross on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:08PM (#45381380)
> For people outside of the US

They’re better off with their own currency or an international currency (currently, Euros or dollars). Almost never a basket. (The IMF has SDRs. And various trade-weighted baskets are constructed for metric purposes. They aren’t practical instruments.)

Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by JumpCrisscross on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:12PM (#45380997)
> Australian dollar has gone up about 20% vs the American dollar since Trump

Which makes it garbage for transacting if you’re paid in or pay with any other currency.

Modern currencies split their store of value and medium of exchange components. Stablecoins (and credit cards and checking accounts) seize on the latter. Bitcoins (and Treasuries and money-market funds) the former.

Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by dboreham on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:09PM (#45380977)
If you don't hold it as an investment it doesn't matter.
Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by Nervhq on Friday September 26, 2025 @12:35AM (#45382682)
I mean.. That's factually not true, it's lost tons of value, it's currently 1.53, what are you talking about? You're either very confused Or just a straight up liar.
Re:Cloudflare Introduces Net Dollar by lossolo on Friday September 26, 2025 @05:52AM (#45384650)
> Is US dollar backed a good thing? At this point we should be backing things on gold, platinum.

It's about making free money, not about making sense. They back it with USD because recent US regulations allow stablecoins to be backed by US securities. They will buy these securities, and for every dollar converted into their coin, they will earn a percentage per year. Free money.