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@daedalean @GhostOnTheHalfShell for all intents and purposes there are really only two #stablecoins:

1. USDT (Tether - ~70% of the market)
2. USDC (#Coinbase, technically through a company called Circle - ~25% of the market)

the rest are tiny.

USDC has actually done an audit or two and we know where the money is (it's in a blackrock trust). #Tether has been the subject of a lot of writing and speculation by me and many others for years now.

#KirstenGillibrand works for the Coinbase / #a16z / #Circle axis of crypto evil so this bill is basically creating rules that would push Tether USDT out of the US market.

Coinbase CEO has already made noise about how they will probably have to delist USDT. Circle CFO is on video saying that Tether is a counterfeiting operation.

(fun fact: Circle USDC was the largest depositor at #SiliconValleyBank and if SVB had been allowed to collapse and $3.2bn worth of USDC had died with it the entire crypto industry would have gone kaput.

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@maxi
And whilst Wirecard folding as the grift it has been from the start may be inconvenient for merchants using them, this didn't result in the same #shitshow that #SiliconValleyBank caused:

People still got their paychecks and businesses could still pay suppliers and get paid.

They might've to switch to competitors like Adyen but in the end, that isn't a hard move...

Integrating #Wirecard messy code was always a clunky shitshow compared to #PayPal which has a clean API...

Bundesbankpräsident Nagel hat vor den Gefahren eines Banken-Ansturms durch #FakeNews gewarnt
Der Fall der #SiliconValleyBank habe gezeigt, dass man schneller werden müsse. Dort hätten Äußerungen in den sozialen Medien dazu beigetragen, einen #BankRun zu beschleunigen. Die Frage sei, ob Fake News auch so etwas auslösen könnten.
Er habe von einem Kollegen aus Südkorea gehört, dass dort eine Task Force der #Bankenaufsicht systematisch die sozialen Medien überwache

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fr.de/wirtschaft/bundesbankpra

www.fr.deBundesbankpräsident sieht Risiko eines Bank-RunsDurch Fake News in Sozialen Medien könnte laut dem Bundesbankpräsidenten ein Banken-Ansturm ausgelöst werden. Diesem Risiko solle man frühzeitig gezielt entgegenwirken.