What is your opinion on stablecoins, in terms of their ability to achieve mass adoption? Will they be able to avoid centralised control and censorship? How does MakerDAO / DAI work and how is it different from other stablecoins so far?

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0:00 What is your opinion on stable coins, are these valid methods towards mass adoption or do they simply promote the legacy standard of centralization control and potential censorship?
5:20 If JPMorgan coin of Facebook coin becomes mainstream and can be used as low cost value transfer cross-border payments method. Does this weaken the potential value of traditional cryptos?
10:45 What is your review of DAI, the crypto back stable coin from MakerDAO?
15:15 One of the interesting things about this kind of decentralized stable coin is that the risks are different
18:50 The lessons we can get from projects like this are incredible

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