Kamvar: Stablecoins are necessary for smart contracts and community currencies
Sep Kamvar · Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins · Aug 29, 2019 · at 12:24
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Sep Kamvar concludes his talk at the a16z Crypto Regulatory Summit on the necessity of programmable stablecoins beyond simple price stability.
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“It's because they not, not only are stablecoins necessary for micropayments, for peer-to-peer insurance, for any kind of smart contract, but they are necessary to enable, at scale, stories like Korachiba.”
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