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Replying to Avatar David King

I’m talking about an alternative to using blockchains for this purpose. stablecoins always have an issuer (e.g., Tether, Circle, etc.) who can issue and revoke stablecoin dollars anyway… so instead of pretending like we have things like security, immutability, and decentralization let’s admit that it doesn’t have those properties and there might be better (simpler/cheaper!) ways to roughly achieve the same thing. I’m thinking signed messages to confirm transfer instead of a blockchain. I don’t have a specific proposal in mind, just feels like something like this should be possible and could simplify/unify how stablecoins work

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Xavier Damman 9mo ago

I see. But it’s not because the issuance is centralized that its use is. You wouldn’t want to check with a central authority whether you have the balance you claim you have.

What I could see though is a lightning model for any asset: you stake it and issue IOUs against it that can freely and cheaply move through P2P channels. It seems to be what Spark is trying to do no? https://www.lightspark.com

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