Good one!

Absolutely! At the very least, mark the paywalls and put forth at least some effort to include wallless sources. There should be some due diligence required regarding finding open sources, preferring balanced sources, or including disagreeing sources when dealing with highly opinionated material/sources.

A brief search of "wikipedia ai review" turned up six other sources for this story on the first page.

We only stop when civilization collapses. Problems have to be fixed as we go, or people start dying fast.

So, just statistical extrapolation from a limited dataset by someone who wanted to demonstrate a specific relationship?

The Guardian doesn't care; they'll print anything that suits their political agenda.

So, make the exchanges banks? Why not just throw crypto out and keep the banks?

How is this not just an unneeded reinvention of the wheel? We already have banks, we already have currency, we already have international trade and currency exchanges, we already have electronic transfers... why do we need this mess?

If you empty your savings account to buy a stablecoin, you just drained it and gave it to someone else so they could put it in their account in exchange for a turd on a wire that they claim represents those dollars you gave them.

But what I can't wrap my head around is why anyone would want to do that. You don't have to buy stablecoins to spend dollars, you can just spend dollars. That is true across the globe, in almost every other nation. Why create a new currency exchange system that people would have to use domestically? What lunatic wants to exchange dollars for stablecoins so that they can use them to buy things IN DOLLARS?!?!

Finance is already byzantine and opaque. Why make it worse?

Isn't the stablecoin itself a middleman in between the consumer and the t-bill they could have bought directly?

Apparently, you aren't supposed to charge/pay interest on them. I don't know how that makes sense or how it is supposed to work for a currency. Can they not be lent or borrowed?

I don't understand the issue or problem. If you can't charge interest on these things, how are banks having to pay interest on them? How do you have a currency that can't earn interest? Doesn't that mean it can't be lent/borrowed?

What the hell are these things? What are they for? Why should they exist?

I still can't wrap my head around what the hell a stablecoin is or why that would be desirable. But then, I have the same problem with the concept of cryptocurrency in general.

Businesses like to shake hands with a bank manager and discuss loans. That's one of the important functions a bank branch provides.

How do you reconcile that claim with the 154%+ increase in per-student education spending since 1970? Adjusted for inflation.

If you have a CDL you can make more than that driving a truck. Which is not to say that $35/hr isn't a pretty decent salary on its own. It is.

If your housing cost is 50% of your income, you can't afford to stay there. Housing shouldn't exceed 30% of your income.