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Gold Stablecoins Coming Soon

_{Nathan Lewis
June 19, 2025
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The main advantage of a USD stablecoin is that it integrates seamlessly with the USD-based monetary economy of today. The main disadvantage is that its value is fixed to the dollar; and that value can be expected to decline over time, slowly or quickly. A better solution, and the one that the US used in 1913, is multiple private issuers of gold-based stablecoins.

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