Prediction:
U.S. dollar stablecoins with yield will drain bank accounts in every country with an inferior currency - which is pretty much all countries.
These countries will react with crypto capital controls - they'll pass laws or regulate.
We're already seeing it.
In the UK the Bank of England is trying to prevent citizens from holding more than £10,000 per person in stablecoins - you'll start seeing crypto capital controls like these (and worse) in many countries over the next 6-12 months as authorities react.
These capital controls will then push more people into DeFi and crypto.
Freedom has no borders on the internet.
For those asking: Zelle/Venmo don't actually settle instantly. They're taking credit risk on the part of users, because ACH still takes something like 2-3 days. And of course that limits the transaction amount, never mind it not supporting international payments across banking systems (while crypto is borderless by default).
90% of Tradfi is technology making it seem to the user the underlying system isn't held together with 19th-century concepts and duct tape and happening at Internet speed (when it isn't).
Blockchain is (re)building the financial system when Internet is a starting assumption.
Buying the Nikes every year, and boosting your stock price as they can show revenue growth. Our system is therefore a game of discipline. And financial gurus who tell others to buy stocks are actually undermining their own interests by doing so
For you to be “good” with your money, there must be someone who is relatively bad with theirs in the other side.
For all of the delayed gratification to buy stocks instead of a new car and Nike and hold them for 30 years, there is actually the requirement that someone is
Wow.
The US just posted a surprise surplus of +$27 Billion for the month of June.
🟢 Total Receipts: $526B
🔴 Total Outlays: $499B
June 2024 was a deficit of -$71 Billion.