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by arcticbull 2091 days ago
Have you considered USD? That behaves and yields like a real USD.
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Right but it doesn’t have blockchain.
Is it really hard to figure out that someone going through the hassle of managing a synthetic USD has a very good reason to do?
Usually crime, yeah.

BitMEX isn't going through all this trouble and criminal indictment avoiding KYC because people using it are super on the up-and-up and have no problem with validating their identities.

The large majority of synthetic USD trading is speculation and hedging. It's significantly cheaper to trade synthetic USD than actual BTCUSD, so 100% of traders will prefer that.
I'm curious how true that is, 30% of Tether's backing currency was seized for being associated with money laundering.