BREAKDOWN: Are Stablecoins the Path to Continued Dollar Dominance?
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🗓️ 21 November 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A reading of two prescient Nic Carter essays from 2020.
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In today’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW goes back to read excerpts from two Nic Carter pieces that seem particularly prescient today, as the U.S. weighs the opportunities and risks of stablecoins.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:16.3 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.9 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, November 21st, and for the first time in breakdown history, |
| 0:29.5 | I accidentally deleted an episode that I had recorded. Now, this is infuriating. I threw 16 |
| 0:35.5 | computers through a wall, but I wasn't going to let my |
| 0:38.5 | stupid error stand in the way of you getting your Longreed Sunday content. So here we are again, |
| 0:45.2 | round two, at least for me, of this episode of Long Read Sunday. And for this, we are going back |
| 0:51.5 | into the archives. Now, one of the things that I've talked about this |
| 0:54.8 | week is how the demystifying crypto hearing showed perhaps a changing attitude towards |
| 1:00.7 | stablecoins. Alongside all of the regulatory conversations, there seems to be an emerging |
| 1:06.5 | sense that, hey, the stickiness, the product market fit, the clear market resonance of these |
| 1:14.1 | US dollar-based stable coins may be an asset that the US dollar establishment should think |
| 1:21.7 | about. And so given that context, I wanted to go back and share excerpts from a couple pieces |
| 1:27.1 | written by the man |
| 1:28.1 | himself, Nick Carter. Nick has long been on this wavelength of suggesting to the powers |
| 1:34.4 | that be in anyone who will listen that the rise of stable coins actually potentially portend |
| 1:40.1 | another generation of U.S. dollar dominance, if the U.S. is smart enough to let them develop. |
| 1:46.7 | So for our first excerpt, let's go back to February 19th, 2020, even before we were facing COVID-19 |
| 1:53.5 | shutdowns in the U.S. Nick published a piece on CoinDest called Policymakers Shouldn't |
| 1:58.3 | Fear Digital Money. So far, it's maintaining the dollar status. |
| 2:02.7 | He writes, on May 9, 2019, Representative Brad Sherman, member of the House Financial Services |
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