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Ask HN: What is your opinion on DAI a stable cryptocurrency built on Ethereum?

8 pointsby babaethover 6 years ago
In my opinion, it&#x27;s delusional (at least for now) to believe that a massive amount of businesses will start accepting crypto like Bitcoin without selling it at the market value automatically. Businesses need stability and we can&#x27;t ask them to trust a currency that can lose 80% of its value in a few months.<p>Businesses want stability but they also want to maximize their revenue by eliminating unnecessary costs. The current credit card processing fees are around 2-3% which is huge! By accepting a stablecoins like DAI instead of credit card payment a businesses could save a lot of money.<p>I would be curious to hear what HN thinks about this.<p>Edit: You can learn more about it here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;makerdao.com&#x2F;

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richardknopover 6 years ago
How do you save the 2-3% processing fee? People will continue using their Visa &#x2F; Mastercard credit cards so you&#x27;d have to persuade for profit businesses that do processing currently to use DAI and lose their income from fees. Not going to happen. You&#x27;d need to offer alternative payment method and somehow persuade people to switch.
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TheSpiceIsLifeover 6 years ago
A full cost comparison works be interested. This would have to include.<p>Are there any providers that offer full merchant services based on any stablecoin?<p>What about any insurance providers for to cover pontial losses?<p>I’m going to purposefully avoid all the other typical questions of hurdles to adoption as they seem out of the scope of your question.
dangerfaceover 6 years ago
I dunno about DAI but in my experience the processing fees for crypto currency are usually alot more than credit cards.
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