Hey Jesstable ones
The term stable coin is such a typical marketing term to obfuscate the truth and give a product more credit by name only. A stable coin is no more or less stable than a cryptocurrency, yes it's volatility is range-bound due to it being pegged to a fiat currency that is backed by nothing and backstopped by an economy, but it isn't stable.
We all know fiat currency continues to lose its value each year, so the only stable thing it does is lose value. The only thing stable coins are good for is transactions since it's easy to understand for consumers to purchase with and to get out of a trade temporarily.
Not all stable coins are created equal; some are backed by reserves like USDT - Tether others are logarithmically created and based on collateral like DAI and SBD/HBD.
Stable coins have been unstable too
Algorithmic stable coins have broken their pegs to the upside and the downside in the past. While HBD/SBD continues, DAI has done pretty well to maintain its peg with a more robust system on how to manage the capital inflow and outflow and to match the incentives for everyone to ensure they maintain the peg, it's by no means perfect, but it's doing pretty well.
However, backed stable coins would seem like they can't break, you give them a dollar they mint a digital one, simple. However, we don't know if it is 1 to 1 backed, basket backed or asset-backed, rehypothecated, equity-backed or debt backed.
While the coin is built and distributed on decentralised networks, we are all trusting a 3rd party like Bitfinex or Coinbase to be honest about their backing. We've already seen Tether being called out for not being backed and because one company can only hold so many dollars before the competition comes in we're seeing more and more stable coins hitting the market.
JPM coin, JP Morgan stable coin looks set to try and enter the market now and what this indicates to me is a way to make money printer go bbbrrrrr on the blockchain and then sucker in users to part with their BTC for probably what I would argue is the shittest of shit coins.
The stable coin market has its limits
The stable coin market still has value because BTC is still seen as a volatile store of value, as the price continues to increase to values such as the $100 000 range and higher, the amount of capital that has to flow in and out to push the price up or down has to be enormous.
No this doesn't mean BTC value will be an absolute stable, but its movements will be less violent, it will start to develop a range with each new price level it settles at, and as this happens, it hardens and becomes a better store of value to trade against.
Once it reaches these levels the need for stable coins will be lower; once that happens, you have all these stable coins pegged to something with less demand, so all it can do is lose purchasing power in a market like crypto with brutal price discovery.
We could build stable coins on Bitcoin in the future
As second layer solutions are starting to expand on Bitcoin like Liquid, Lightning and RGB in future I think people will be able to use their BTC to mint a stable coin and pay for goods or services or trade without the need for it to be backed by a dollar because it's backed by the best blockchain asset, in Bitcoin. This to me leverages what we see on ETH now with DAI and gives it the power of Bitcoins liquidity and depth to make a better stable coin.
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