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Users that don't understand these things shouldn't jump into the market and buy the hottest thing. They should probably stick to long lasting products like BTC
by reedjosh 4y ago
Users that don't understand these things shouldn't jump into the market and buy the hottest thing.
They should probably stick to long lasting products like BTC, ETH, or XMR.
> The user might reasonably expect such a mechanism would only be used in an emergency
A de-peg event is an emergency if there's not enough real value to back it.
The USD was depegged from gold in the seventies for very similar reasons.
In both cases the printer got ahead of the backing.
Today we use a currency that survived a de-peg event due to military backing.