πΊπΈ US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns the Federal Reserve's 'FedNow' digital currency will result in financial slavery and political tyranny.
"Explain it to me like I'm 5." Well, here you go. 99% of the entities in this space don't need their own native token and simply do to raise money. Now, we see how this has led to an implosion with under collateralized institutions and leverage baked into balance sheets
Imagine McDonald's makes its own money, let's call them clown-bucks, keeps most of it, and sells some to the market.
McDonald's then uses their remaining clown-bucks as collateral for actual loans.
And then people remember clown-bucks aren't real.
I guess what we thought was SBF/FTX acquiring every insolvent exchange/fund in attempts to become a monopoly or save crypto was actually them trying to solve their own liquidity issues. Yikes.