All IoUs are stablecoins. Instead of being a USD stablecoin, it's a BTC stablecoin, i.e. it's some other token that mirrors the value of real bitcoin according to someone else's promise.
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The definition of stablecoin is associated with fiat money as opposed to the volatility of Bitcoin.
L-BTC is an IOU, I agree, and I will never deny it, but if you understand how it works and its risks, it is another scaling solution, I will never say that L-BTC is Bitcoin, LN-BTC for example is Bitcoin.
But from there to say that L-BTC is fiat, I do not think it is fair beyond creating controversy in the same way that it is not a stablecoin.
When a better scaling solution comes out (as I think ARK is) do not doubt that I will use it and stop using worse solutions.
L-BTC is a stablecoin the exact same way WBTC is a stablecoin. It does not need to represent a Fiat currency to be a stablecoin. It's "stable" because someone is guaranteeing the peg.
L-BTC is as much a shitcoin as Monero.
I prefer to use decentralized and private Monero as a scaling method over Blockstream's federated Liquid protocol.
