"And, look, if the casino gets robbed, and you are chilling in the lobby, you’re gonna get robbed too. Obviously you’ll be sad about getting robbed. You came to gamble, maybe to get rich or else to have fun losing your money, and getting robbed does not satisfy either of those desires. But it could be worse. You were … at the casino? You were mentally prepared to lose that money anyway.
Similarly the expectation for anyone trading crypto surely has to be that it’s a risky volatile asset class where you can lose all your money in a variety of exciting new ways, and if you are parking some of that money in dollar stablecoins some of that expectation ought to carry over. If you want to put your money somewhere safe, there are banks and money-market funds and Credit Suisse supply-chain funds, and if any of them go bust then that is a potential financial-stability problem. If you want to put your money somewhere safe for crypto, there are stablecoins, and if any of them go bust then that is a brief distraction from the crypto exchanges losing their customers’ money in other ways."
Similarly the expectation for anyone trading crypto surely has to be that it’s a risky volatile asset class where you can lose all your money in a variety of exciting new ways, and if you are parking some of that money in dollar stablecoins some of that expectation ought to carry over. If you want to put your money somewhere safe, there are banks and money-market funds and Credit Suisse supply-chain funds, and if any of them go bust then that is a potential financial-stability problem. If you want to put your money somewhere safe for crypto, there are stablecoins, and if any of them go bust then that is a brief distraction from the crypto exchanges losing their customers’ money in other ways."