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Why It's so Hard to Keep Stablecoins Stable
Category: Business
Duration: 01:03:25
Publish Date: 2018-02-27 02:30:00
Description:

Rune Christensen of MakerDAO and Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and High Fidelity, discuss why stablecoins are called crypto's holy grail, why they may be what's necessary for mainstream adoption, and all the ways a stablecoin can be constructed. Philip brings in his experience with Second Life's Linden dollars, often called the first true virtual currency, to describe how it was constructed and how he's planning to disseminate the cryptocurrency of his new virtual world, High Fidelity. Plus, we talk about why a digital USD wouldn't be a threat to stablecoins and whether collateralized stablecoins resemble fractional reserve banking or not.

Maker DAO: https://makerdao.com/

High Fidelity: https://highfidelity.com/

HFC: https://docs.highfidelity.com/high-fidelity-commerce/basics/hfc

More info on Linden dollars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Second_Life

The Hacker Noon post by Haseeb Qureshi: https://hackernoon.com/stablecoins-designing-a-price-stable-cryptocurrency-6bf24e2689e5

IMF SDRs: http://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/08/01/14/51/Special-Drawing-Right-SDR

Episode with Bill Tai: http://unchainedpodcast.co/maitai-globals-bill-tai-on-why-blockchain-is-the-6th-wave-of-technology

Vitalik's post on collateralized debt obligations for issuer-backed tokens: https://ethresear.ch/t/collateralized-debt-obligations-for-issuer-backed-tokens/525

Other stablecoins:

Tether: https://tether.to/

Basecoin: http://www.getbasecoin.com/

Havven: https://havven.io/
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