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by pjc50 1577 days ago
Hilariously, crypto has reinvented fractional reserve banking. "Staking" is just traditional fixed-duration lending, but with some weird caveats and liquidation rules borrowed from margin trading that you need to read carefully.
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Most importantly, it has no real guarantee. There is no reason why our beloved Tether inc can't just vanish from its Cayman Islands headquarters one day