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> (Which, as a side note, is something I would be more than curious to know from cryptocoiners, how they are going to stop fractional reserve banking to flood c
by brian_cloutier 8y ago
> (Which, as a side note, is something I would be more than curious to know from cryptocoiners, how they are going to stop fractional reserve banking to flood crypto currency supply, as for sure there is no regulator that is going to stop that.)
There will for sure be a regulator to stop that. In fact, there are already numerous regulators to stop it. If you want to hold deposits for your customers who happen to be California residents, then you are a bank and will need a banking license from the California Department of Business Oversight. California does not care what currency those deposits are denominated in. I expect this to be true everywhere else in the world, cryptocurrency is not some alternative universe where the old rules won't apply.
- beefield 8y agoFinancial engineers are quite talented in figuring out ways to create things that look like a duck, swim like a duck, and quack like a duck, but definitely are not ducks in a regulatory sense. And I am not familiar with Californian regulations, but I think there may be some challenges in trying to enforce the regulations if a californian makes a bitcoin deposit to a remote chinese "bank"?