It is by far the easiest way to pay people who are in another country. Trying to use a bank account for that always seems to get thwarted by a bunch of "fraud alert" false alarms.
I feel like every time I hear about scaling crypto the answer is to build a system that’s actually decoupled from crypto and occasionally writes back a little bit of info.
A good currency is stable. Bitcoin has gone up over 5x in the last 5 years. This is not a good currency, though it’s certainly been a good speculative bet.
I want 3 things from crypto:
* throughput that _could_ scale to something like visa. 50k/second christmas.
* privacy by default for everyone - "public ledger" for a currency replacement is INSANE
* reasonable transaction completion time ( < 1 minute)Crypto values are arbitrary decree of crypto holders
We're just creating techno religious sects preaching from their pulpit
The only thing unique about anyone is their biology. Same old gibberish coming out their mouth, keyboards; not their values! My values! My line go up! Not their line!
Ooh yeah "fiat money" you mean. An arbitrary decree to constrain the definition. Infinitely endless arbitrary rhetoric. Incompleteness theory of primate language.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-uses-stablecoins-colle...
Point being, I don't think you can take this story and think it applies to a broader, general group of enterprise customers without more mundane examples.
> monthly B2B volume has more than doubled since February, rising 113% to about $6.4 billion. The expansion lifted the cumulative value of stablecoin payments since 2023 to over $136 billion, representing that on-chain money is no longer a niche settlement tool.[1]
And $9T in annual payment volume[2].
As it turns out stablecoin payments are actually a real thing, especially B2B.
I cannot for the life of me articulate why, because I actually don’t understand its value prop (despite lengthy conversations with ChatGPT and people on HN about it) or see any reason for its growth, but it is a thing whether we admit it or not.
[1] https://beincrypto.com/stablecoin-payments-surge-real-world-...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roomykhan/2025/11/16/stablecoin...
> Bitcoin has died 450 times. If you invested $100 each time, you'd have $96,489,717 today.
I think this would be more interesting if the same sequence of $100 infusions were applied to various stocks.
For all the crap that is in the crypto ecosystem I do think a lot of people underestimate its potential. Defi can replace entire institutions like banking. Combine it with regulated local stablecoins and governments dont seem too unhappy with it either.
No income. No worries. Number go up
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