At a time when some regimes, for example, Communist China, are using top-down restrictions on their digital yuan to maintain totalitarian control of their populace, stablecoins have emerged as an innovative, entrepreneurial way to provide wider access to the U.S. dollar around the world.
Mooney discusses the advantages of stablecoins compared to authoritarian regimes.
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