What’s the Point of Stablecoins?

Alberto Guerrero
Bitcoin For Mere Mortals
6 min readJan 21

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The illusion of stability

Foto de Dušan veverkolog en Unsplash

Stablecoins are booming. Out of the top ten crypto assets, three are currencies pegged to the US dollar.

Tether, USDC, and BUSD are basically digital crypto dollars that keep their value as close as possible to $1 and this is achieved by maintaining reserve assets as collateral.

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Alberto Guerrero
Bitcoin For Mere Mortals

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