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A successful venture using cryptocurrencies for anything other than speculation would be a good start.



It's just another speculation scheme. "Protect your money from inflation" means "make a bet that our token's price will go up".

If you want to safeguard your savings against inflation, the way to do it is to invest it in vehicles that are backed by something, like corporate stocks, government bonds, real estate, or commodity money, not a vacuous line on a digital ledger supported by nothing but people's hope that it'll be worth more tomorrow.

Valiu's claim that they're backed by USD is dubious at best. Tether was running a similar scheme, we now know that they only have 2.9% of the money that they claim to have in reserve, the rest having been traded away to mysterious LLCs in the Caymans, and many of their coins printed out of thin air.




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