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I think the entire point of mentioning SBNY is that they are acting like a traditional bank in lending out their deposits. The question is what kind of loans di
by woeirua 4y ago
I think the entire point of mentioning SBNY is that they are acting like a traditional bank in lending out their deposits. The question is what kind of loans did they make, and how liquid are they? If they're not very liquid then USDC will eventually have a liquidity crisis.
- ceejayoz 4y agoI think the question being raised is "what if SBNY collapses"?
- NelsonMinar 4y agoOr more specifically "what if a run on USDC causes Standard Bank of New York to collapse?" The bank is part of the legitimate, regulated economy. The regulators should be insulating the real economy from cryptocurrency scams and gambling.
- woah 4y agoIf people wanted to get their money out and SBNY had somehow misplaced it, it would seem like the “scam” was the “legitimate, regulated” SBNY, not “cryptocurrency”
- FabHK 4y agoIn the good old regulated economy, individual depositors of a bank are protected by the FDIC (up to a certain level), and have no reason to engage in a bank run. Now, if all those individual depositors instead give their money to some unregulated entity (USDC), and that unregulated entity gives $50 bn to a bank, and then one day turns around and says to the bank "hey, I'd like my $50 bn back", then the bank might not have that much at hand right now. And since the unregulated entity is not covered by the FDIC, individual investors might have an incentive to engage in a bank run.
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