Back in the early days, cryptocurrency enthusiasts used to laugh at the thought of a stable cryptocurrency pegged to a specific fiat currency like the US dollar. Although nowadays things have changed and the digital currency tether (USDT) captures more cryptocurrency trade volume than most of the leading nation-state issued fiat currencies like the USD and JPY. Moreover, the past year or so more ‘stablecoins’ have been entering the crypto-economy, and some individuals think stablecoins are necessary elements for the future of this technology.
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The ‘Second Bitcoin White Paper’ Written by JR Willett Unleashes the ‘Stablecoin’ Idea in 2012
‘Stablecoins’ — whether you hate them or love them they have become extremely popular over the last two years, and tether (USDT) a digital currency that’s issued over the Omni Layer protocol has become a puzzling phenomenon. Asset-pegged cryptocurrencies started being heavily discussed and written about in 2012 in J.R. Willet’s Mastercoin white paper, and around 2014 the concept really started gaining steam. There have been many attempts to create stable coins that failed miserably at pegging. The cryptocurrency, nubits (USNBT), was supposed to stay valued at one US dollar. Nubits stuck to around a dollar since it launched up until June 9, 2016, and then sunk below that point until September 6, 2016. Again the currency kept stable for a while all the way until March 21, and it hasn’t been able to keep the 1:1 ratio ever since then.
Tether the King of All Crypto-Dollars
In November of 2014, Reeve Collins revealed the project ‘Tether’ a blockchain based coin that’s issued using the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network utilizing the Omni Layer protocol. The Omni network
