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by WJW 1 hour ago
Why do you think stablecoins cannot be taken away? There are already many cases where eg Tether got a court summons and handed over the contents of certain wallets to the local authorities.
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The original stablecoin, DAI, used since 2017 by a lot of people living in countries ravaged by horrible inflation cannot be taken away.

It can just be a smart contract with overcollaterised crypto backing it. And the idea is kind of genius.

All the USDT and USDC which appeared later on a just "proxy" for "real" dollar hold by Tether or Circle. There is nothing permissionless or decentralized about them.

So "stablecoin" can mean very different things in practice.