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Crypto Owners May Get Priority in the Event of Bank Failures (jacobin.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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The US Senate is poised to pass a financial deregulation bill ensuring that when a bank goes out of business, the savings of cryptocurrency owners would be made whole before those of other bank customers.

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[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why should speculators be made whole first?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Because we live in capitalist dictatorships.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Because the president is literally running a crypto scam

[–] derry@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do gamblers next

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

He did that for some Russians already. They got money laundered in a casino and trump got bankrupted. The art of the deal.

[–] banghida@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Nice 👍

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jacobin once again completely misunderstand what it is talking about. A stable coin is not a speculative asset. These are meant to be pegged to the currency they represent (USD, here). This is explicitly talking about the issue of the stable coin, not the holding entity. Why would these banks be issuing their own versions of stable coins, when there's already a bunch of them out there?

This has nothing to do with people gambling on memecoins

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not speculative asset if speculative-asset-shaped?

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

It's not speculative...