Saving is burning money: Daniel on stablecoins and inflation.
What inflation does to a saver, from someone living it. Daniel, in Nigeria, does the arithmetic out loud: “I will have $200,000 in cash, but this purchasing power will be less because of inflation. It’s as good as I have $160,000 or $170,000.” The interviewer names it and he agrees. “You’re burning money. Yeah, I’m burning money. By saving.”
Then the part that makes it an argument rather than a complaint. “I don’t get bailouts.” Big companies do. So if the individual is not protected by policy, “I shouldn’t be affected by their lack of intelligent policies,” and “I should be able to use blockchain, crypto, like stable coins to hedge against that.” His plan is to spread that: “I want to encourage more people to save in stable tokens and maybe stake them.” Beyond savings he wants blockchain for “holding leaders accountable,” and to “encourage youth and teenagers to learn blockchain technology as a means of getting out of poverty.”
The last minute is the church community he already supports, with small prizes, “$10 for the first prize, $7 for the second, and then $5 for the third prize,” and a hope to fund scholarships for kids from low-income and single-parent homes. Compare the American version of the same argument in ’Bitcoin hedges debasement, not inflation’. Executive producer @cxy; supported by Donna Dalton and Aja Davis. The transcript below is from the original audio.
