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Next bear market in let’s say 2026 or whatever….

What is your bottom price prediction

Even ChatGPT knows banks are Ponzis

Any one use the Tapsigner by coinkite? Was thinking about picking one up in the meantime while I save up for the Coldcard. Wanted to get some opinions on it. #plebchain

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My hot take is that the US govt will not issue a CBDC, but will use stable coins like USDC to be a de facto CBDC.

1. USDC currently acts as a short term money market fund, and as such would be a huge buyer of short term and long term US debt. This could be a huge benefit to the US gov and FED to keep their Ponzi running.

2. If the government issues a CBDC we would all have accounts directly with the FED, forcing a multi trillion dollar banking industry to find a new business model - one than doesn’t use depositors money. This would create turmoil in that industry.

3. A “stable coin” digital dollar would find enormous use outside of the US (South America, Turkey, Africa, etc.) as other currencies fail and would increase demand for US debt (see #1). This would also be their only way to compete against Bitcoin.

4. There will be a public/private partnership between huge banks / credit card companies/ and the us government to create the USDC and in return for this privilege, there will be massive regulations and these companies will need to hand over all sorts data on customers. Very similar to the current system.

This seems to me the more rational route for them to take, as I don’t think the government wants to directly manage a blockchain and would outsource that liability to private corporations, and allows for the current debt based system not only to survive but expand.

Hay alguna razón por la que un usuario final hoy en día usaría DAI?. Por qué tendrías DAI que es básicamente USDC pero con más riesgos?

Any reason why someone would hold DAI these days?

How to spot a psychopath on nostr:

Any EU stores selling tapsigners?

I’m not on Twitter because of #MarchOffTwitter but this was shared in a group of Bitcoin maxis I’m in…

Let’s see how Monday evolves. “Then they fight you…”

How much are we talking about?

I usually see about 3% that’s what I use, I have had successful buys and sells at a 3% premium. Occasionally I’ll bump it up a percentage or 2 just to try and get the order completed faster.