I saw a video, I think it was Mark Yusko, explaining how crypto asset stablecoins will be very important for the US $ as a global reserve currency
I'm just going to list the things that I remember from the video (if I misstate or misunderstood something, whatever, you get what you pay for, I'm no expert, dyor)
- China, Japan and Russia dumping their US Treasuries
- US debt is over $31 Trillion
- The interest payment burden will force the US to keep issuing new debt
- Big buyers of the past don't want to buy US Treasuries any more, they have their own problems, like UK and Japan and Russia and China don't trust the US will ever pay the debt and Yellen talked about lack of liquidity, who knows these things, price keeps crashing, yield keeps going up
- BRIC, in particular China and Russia, and India, wanna do trades not using US $
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Enter crypto assets stablecoins. USDC and USDT combined would be buying over $100B worth of US Treasuries
Maker DAO, a DeFi stablecoin is investing in US Treasuries in their collateral algo. This may not be the only one that would do this
- Crypto Asset Stablecoin - the hero the US $ needs but does not deserve
Mark's conclusion was that the stablecoins will be allowed to grow in value to trillions of $ as they will be the number 1 buyer of US Treasuries
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And this will further strengthen the US $ as the world's global currency
Imagine a Canadian under attack from account freezing by their government and value erosion against the US $ can now hold $100K USD via Tether on their computer without any risk of a government official confiscating it
Or how about a street vendor in Turkey needing to store value in the US $ to fight off very high inflation, can do it on their cell phones. Same with a person in Argentina
Or how about that college student in Laos having some US $ in a cell phone, or a mother in Lebanon having some US $ on her cell phone
All possible with USDT or USDC
Borderless access to the US $
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But crypto haters would prefer digital Yuan, Ruble or Rupee
ngmi