The Ledger

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Insight
Milenius: Purely self-centered participation prevents successful DAO coordination
“If everybody comes at this from, like, some kind of hyper-rational, self-centered, I'm only in it for myself, mentality. Then they'll just never coordinate. They'll never cooperate, you know, and they'll never put aside their differences and do the hard work o…”
Andy Milenius Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 46:04 a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
Assertion Supported
Milenius: Maker mints MKR to cover bad debt during collateral crashes
“In the case where one of the collaterals that they accept to be issued against, if they ever make a mistake, and that collateral loses all of its value overnight, then all of the die that was issued against it needs value to be backing it. And so what happens …”
Andy Milenius Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:01 a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
Opinion
Yahya: DAI offers Bitcoin's advantages with price stability for hyperinflationary economies
“Now, the beauty of DAI as a cryptocurrency is that it has all of the advantages of Bitcoin, but it is also a price table, and it is because of that stability that it is a credible digital alternative to fiat in countries where hyperinflation is a problem or fo…”
Ali Yahya Dec 16, 2018 ▶ 20:16 Crypto, the Future of Trust
Insight
Milenius: Diversified asset pools protect DAI against single-asset failures
“And so, one of the really, really important details about DAI is this idea that there's a lot of different types of assets. So you can imagine supply chain invoices, you can imagine, like, commodities like gold, you can imagine pure cryptocurrencies like Ether…”
Andy Milenius Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:21 a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
Insight
Walden: Stablecoins create a flywheel of tokenization and stability
“That's really cool because there's this flywheel where Dive has already sort of improved the user experience of today's early applications on the blockchain, and, you know, that in turn fosters adoption of those applications, and increased adoption in turn lea…”
Jesse Walden Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:47 a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
Assertion Supported
Dixon: DAI has stayed stable for over a year despite volatile collateral
“DAI, for example, has been live for over a year. The underlying assets have been super volatile, and it's remained stable.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:27 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
Assertion Supported
Yahya: DAI maintained its US dollar peg throughout the crypto downturn
“Now, Maker launched DAI almost a year ago, and it's been in circulation ever since, and has defended its peg against the dollar beautifully, even through the crypto downturn.”
Ali Yahya Dec 16, 2018 ▶ 20:37 Crypto, the Future of Trust
Assertion Supported
Milenius: Around 1M new DAI enter circulation weekly
“Something like about a million new DAI come into circulation every week as people lock up ether and issue against it, which is so cool.”
Andy Milenius Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 41:08 a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
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