Reading a reasonable article about crypto in the mainstream media and then get to this line: 

“Even stablecoins, though, have failed to gain much use outside of speculative trading, and the occasional money laundering operation”

Speculative trading of… stablecoins? 😒🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

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To be fair, *if* I wanted to make this argument, it would be that stables are part of speculation as trading pairs. You speculate or leverage vs a stable, for example.

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I’m saying that the whole DeFi (and even CEXes) ecosystem would be much smaller if people could not trade vs stables.

are you saying I’ll put my money in some other token because I think it’s a better trade than keeping it in a fiat pegged stable coin? Quite the stretch but I like the effort to give them an out