Who is Satoshi

037 Terra Luna UST Crash


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Terra lost 99.9% of its value just over a week ago.  This "decentralized" crypto offered a 20% yield via staking (compared to a bank's .01% interest offered in savings accounts).

The stablecoin, UST, lost its peg to the dollar, causing the equivalent of a bank-run on Terra.  Terra attempted to peg the UST stablecoin to the US dollar without backing it with U.S. dollars.  Terra's solution to their problem was to increase their supply from 386 million Luna tokens to 6.5 trillion Luna tokens, debasing Luna.

Leaving us with the question: how can a decentralized crypto print 16,839x the previous total supply of Luna tokens?  It must be centrally controlled, just as any crypto with a pre-mine, a group of developers, or a figurehead is centralized--despite what it claims to be.

Crypto =/= Bitcoin

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