Making Sense of Crypto

The Real Risk of Stablecoins

July 27, 2022 Mark Lurie
The Real Risk of Stablecoins
Making Sense of Crypto
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Making Sense of Crypto
The Real Risk of Stablecoins
Jul 27, 2022
Mark Lurie

Today, we're talking about stablecoins with Patrick Murk. Stablecoins are one of the most popular crypto utilities in terms of use cases. Today, the two largest stablecoins account for over a hundred billion dollars of market cap.

That's a really big amount. They're both part of the top five coins and in a lot of ways, stablecoins might fulfill a lot of the promise that Bitcoin was initially proposed, which is payments.

We'll start by establishing the lay of the land and identifying the approaches for stablecoins today. 

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Today, we're talking about stablecoins with Patrick Murk. Stablecoins are one of the most popular crypto utilities in terms of use cases. Today, the two largest stablecoins account for over a hundred billion dollars of market cap.

That's a really big amount. They're both part of the top five coins and in a lot of ways, stablecoins might fulfill a lot of the promise that Bitcoin was initially proposed, which is payments.

We'll start by establishing the lay of the land and identifying the approaches for stablecoins today.