A visual guide to understanding the difference between stablecoins and digital currencies.
In 1930, the United States told the world not to hold gold, as gold was too inconvenient; holding US dollars was sufficient, as the dollar was pegged to gold at $35 an ounce, and you could redeem it anytime.
In 1970, the United States told the world that the dollar is the dollar, and gold is gold. As gold surged against the dollar, you can’t say I can’t repay my debts; now my gold reserves are enough to cover it.
In 2030, the United States will tell the world not to hold dollars, but to hold "stablecoins*" instead, as dollars are too inconvenient; stablecoins are pegged to the dollar, and you can redeem them for dollars anytime.
In 2070, the United States will tell the world that the dollar is the dollar, and stablecoins are stablecoins. As stablecoins surge against the dollar, you can’t say I can’t repay my dollar debts; my stablecoins are enough to cover it, okay?
One by one, they come to collect debts like they’re chasing after lives (laughs).
There are two branches to this: if in the coming decades, the United States regains its technological productivity, the dollar will remain strong, and then "stablecoins" will depreciate significantly, eventually being kicked into the sewer, and the blame will be shifted to the wise king.
If in the coming decades, the US cannot maintain its lead, then this "2070" will come sooner.
From a positive perspective, this is also a way of wealth distribution; after all, in 2040, the older generation in the US will hold dollars, while the younger generation may receive their salaries in stablecoins.
This concept is actually easy to understand: Dad (the dollar) pours all assets into stablecoins (the son) and takes on all the debts himself. Dad goes to jail, the son becomes a millionaire, and in the end, he comes to rescue Dad. Chinese people should be quite familiar with this.
As for the process, for example, in 2040, dividends from US listed companies must be paid in stablecoins, corporate income tax must be paid in a certain proportion of stablecoins, and capital gains tax must be paid in stablecoins. It doesn’t have to be so complicated; just make the process of paying in dollars cumbersome and redundant during the design phase, and these quality assets will gradually lean towards holding stablecoins, thus completing the asset transfer from dollars to stablecoins.
When these quality entities hold a large amount of stablecoins, they will naturally hope for stablecoins to appreciate while the dollar depreciates, leading to a collective desire.
Isn’t the essence of this world just that big stores bully customers, and customers bully stores?
This is a game, so let’s enjoy it a bit.

A picture to understand what the three major cryptocurrency bills passed by the US House of Representatives are doing?
Among them, the GENIUS Act will clarify the issuance and operation rules for stablecoins pegged to the US dollar at the federal level, claiming to "strengthen the position of the US dollar in the global financial system".
The Clarity Act is a market structure reform bill that deals with the division of regulatory powers over digital assets.
The Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act permanently prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing digital currencies (CBDCs).
In fact, the brothers look back at the financial innovation in history, financial innovation itself is the coexistence of risks and returns, sometimes it brings huge economic heat, sometimes it brings financial risks, and everyone will also find a game route.
It is the pros and cons between financial innovation and financial supervision, and the long-term judgment criterion is mainly: the meaning of the existence of finance itself is to serve the real economy, and at the same time can better allow the people to participate in economic investment and obtain distribution from growth.
For example, real estate-related financial derivatives that caused the 2008 global financial crisis were then checked and filled, and of course, they paid a huge price for government debt to come out.
The so-called three major cryptocurrency bills are essentially regulatory bills, or financial regulatory bills that lag behind financial innovation, such as stablecoin regulation, digital asset regulatory division of power, central bank digital currency hairstyle restrictions, etc.
For financial innovation, the most feared is regulation, and the favorite is also regulation, but the target is different, such as the lack of supervision can bring a huge pool of funds and the space created by Ponzi, and then change the shell and play again after crazy growth, there is still no shortage of investment speculators, this has happened too many times, so I won't say much.
The favorite of financial innovation is also supervision, only supervision can better develop benignly under the official rules, and supervision itself is also an endorsement, which is different from the mixed market is more standardized.
The stablecoin bill and the digital asset market clarity bill are easier to understand, that is, to regulate financial innovation, the most noteworthy is actually the third bill, that is, the national bill to limit anti-central bank digital currency surveillance, the purpose is to restrict the central bank (Federal Reserve) from issuing digital currencies to the public, precisely to provide stablecoins and other digital assets with room to survive, which has been discussed many times before, completely two things, the central bank's digital currency is centralized, lost physical cash, is the government's endorsement, and the central bank's liability , while virtual currencies such as stablecoins are decentralized, and the composition of credit endorsement is relatively complex, and it is indeed worth paying attention to restricting the rights of the central bank for the development of the latter.
As an aside, contrary to our country's digital asset development mode, our country is dominated by the central bank's centralized digital currency, supplemented by some compliant stablecoins, and compliant stablecoins now seem to be mainly "offshore RMB collateral" and "Hong Kong dollar collateral" stablecoins, and the central bank's digital yuan is vigorously promoted, which is the opposite of the development model of digital assets in the United States. The two development models have nothing to do with right or wrong, because they are a new thing, there are benefits and risks, the former focuses on returns, our country focuses on risks, and it takes time to verify which one is better.
Finally, the U.S. government vigorously develops stablecoins, especially Treasury-backed stablecoins, if the proportion of the global settlement system increases, it is conducive to the continuation of U.S. financial hegemony in the emerging settlement system and economic globalization, and the government's bond issuance in the future can even not rely on deficit monetization, that is, the central bank buys Treasury bonds, thereby increasing the supply of U.S. dollars in the market, and now stablecoins can also buy Treasury bonds and enter the market circulation, the U.S. dollar and U.S. bonds are both U.S. credit, U.S. debt-backed stablecoins, which are more broad sense of holding hegemony.
In addition, the position of the Federal Reserve is also divided, the issuance of digital currency is strictly restricted, and the absolute importance of the former U.S. bonds gives way to the U.S. dollar, which is suppressed by stablecoins, which is generally a process of weakening the position of the Fed and increasing U.S. debt-backed stablecoins.
The above is just the basic situation, as for whether it can consolidate the hegemony of the US dollar and drive the US stock currency circle to take off, first of all, the credit of the United States is the embodiment of comprehensive influence, stablecoins are only a financial tool, and whether it can better serve the internal and global trade of the United States is the final evaluation criterion, especially the progress of the reshaping of the United States' own manufacturing industry, or to observe, financial innovation, no matter how good the design is, risks always appear in unexpected places, after the regulation lands, first run under the existing financial supervision.

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