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by krrishd 1y ago
I think you have a much cooler, futuristic vision of a "branded stablecoin" than what I'm talking about :) Almost like a more practical/feasible version of the "flatcoin" concept Balaji Srinivasan (of Coinbase&
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by krrishd 1y ago
It's a good question - Stripe's Stablecoin Account documentation is good reference here (they denominate balances in USDB, one of these "custom stablecoins" from Bridge): https://docs.stripe.com/crypto&#x
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by krrishd 1y ago
From the consumer perspective totally - but those credit card points come from the interchange the issuer makes from issuing the card / your card txns (ie. as a proportion of your _spend_ using the card). The sort of rewards you get fo
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Why you’d issue a branded stablecoin(text-incubation.com)
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Stripe's Tempo and the Ghost of Facebook's Libra's Past(forbes.com)
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by krrishd 1y ago
> existing centralized systems Other comments speak to this - but I wouldn't describe SWIFT (the predominant cross-border payments rail for high-value transactions that you couldn't just throw at a fintech eg. Wise) as centrali
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by krrishd 1y ago
The status quo of cross-border, bank-to-bank money movement today is actually somewhat decentralized: - SWIFT is really just a messaging protocol between a distributed, decentralized set of global banks that are all passing messages/mo
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by krrishd 1y ago
> It's all a speed run to slowly realize that the terrible system we had, in fact had some good ideas / rules of the road that even empowered the little guy to some extent. I think this is true of all reinvention, including the
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The irony of stablecoin: centralization is the point(text-incubation.com)
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by krrishd 1y ago
Apropos of Stripe's https://tempo.xyz/ announcement
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by krrishd 1y ago
Related premise / HN discussion from a bit ago - “AI code is legacy code from day one”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888225
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by krrishd 1y ago
I think this is sort of right - I do think the fact that they're ERC-20s makes them the "trojan horse" for the broader ecosystem. Suddenly DeFi is interoperable with "more real" money, suddenly BTC is usable as perm
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The Great Irony of Stablecoin(text-incubation.com)
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Pay to Pin on IPFS with X402(pinata.cloud)
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The Great Irony of Stablecoin(text-incubation.com)
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by krrishd 1y ago
I mostly agree with the premise, but to point out something kinda funny: these complaints are basically identical to the ones I remember from a time I personally remember as the "heyday" of hackathons (early/mid 2010s). I thi
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by krrishd 1y ago
TIL / unconscious reference on my part, super interesting! Link for the curious: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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AI code is legacy code?(text-incubation.com)
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Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?
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by krrishd 2y ago
This is a game I spent hundreds of hours of my childhood playing - remembered it, and thought that it's the type of thing HN might get a kick out of.
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Powder Game – A Physics Simulator(dan-ball.jp)
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by krrishd 3y ago
every prolific creator i've seen in practice has been a far more indulgent consumer than the average person. that, and in the chicken and egg of inspiration and production, i've found that production is usually wrung out of a surp
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by krrishd 3y ago
randomly curious re: "there are compliance and regulatory thresholds that make it hard for us to give out sandbox keys freely" what kinds of thresholds? (mainly curious since sandbox keys naively seem harmless to hand out)
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by krrishd 3y ago
Would be curious to see HN crypto critics mount their arguments against: 1. Physical cash / gold (ie. bearer instrument moneys that are non-trivial to seize or control at scale) 2. The digitization of the above, retaining the same &quo
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by krrishd 4y ago
Seeing a lot of people say that a rewrite is a terrible idea, but (as someone who doesn’t understand why) I’d love to hear a more fleshed out explanation re: why exactly that’d be a bad idea.
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Ask HN: Can you train yourself into having good ideas?
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by krrishd 5y ago
> Russia orders people and companies to sell 80% of their revenue in foreign currencies, forcing them to buy the ruble We have headlines like this running today and HN is still on its anti-crypto kick? Like there still isn't any cha
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by krrishd 5y ago
Ah, I was wondering how it persisted the stats (which I presumed were stored via localStorage).
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by krrishd 5y ago
> Nobody ever had a problem with verifiable receipts when attending concerts or buying a car or eating at a restaurant Sorry, but spoken like someone who has no idea how the fashion industry operates. Seriously though, it’s one thing to
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by krrishd 5y ago
- Custom Music Artworks - Custom Artists / Producer / Lyrics description - Custom rules to ignore songs on random selection - Custom rules to select equalizer per song - Folder based navigation - Smart Folder based playlists - Upl

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