Are stablecoins safe?

[Silberman]

I had stored most of my funds in the Gold Stablecoin, where you can exchange your Etherium and BTC for Gold. For the time being, I'm seeing that it is as stable as I think. Recently they had a bounty campaign also running, but I think it is still running. This is just my opinion, you can try other stablecoins, according to your research.

You need to be very careful and check the value of your coins continuously, I say this because over the years there have been many coins which claim to be backed by gold and they never last long, so it is possible the coin in which you invested your money is not going to be an exception to this, I think that if you want to be out of this market for some time that is respectable, but if that is the case then you need to get fiat, stable coins are simply to vulnerable to manipulation by those which can create those tokens.

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[alexandr1115]

There are quite a lot of different stablecoins on the market right now, and it's not entirely clear why there are so many of them being produced. If earlier there was only one main coin called USDT, now there are much more of them. Of course, if you study this issue in more detail, it is not recommended to buy stablecoins with a small capitalization. It is better to make your choice towards USDT, since its market capitalization is approximately equal to two stablecoins called USDC and BUSD (Binance USD).

[ali115112]

Investors are worried after losing their investment in UST stablecoin and some rumors about stablecoin USDC and USDT. Only hold some of your investment in stablecoin. BUSD stable coin is safe, but a significant portion of your investment should be in BTC and some in BUSD.

[onecall123]

The price of Tether (USDT) will eventually collapse, but not now. There are many more things that haven't been audited in USDT, which has caused speculation.

Therefore, USDC exists. Transparency and full backing are the hallmarks of USDC. However, anything is possible now that they can find ways to crash it. If you want to use DAI, you can do so. DAI> USDC > USDT. Yet it's probably not a smart move to invest in stablecoins.

[Wahyuihib]

The price of Tether (USDT) will eventually collapse, but not now. There are many more things that haven't been audited in USDT, which has caused speculation.

Therefore, USDC exists. Transparency and full backing are the hallmarks of USDC. However, anything is possible now that they can find ways to crash it. If you want to use DAI, you can do so. DAI> USDC > USDT. Yet it's probably not a smart move to invest in stablecoins.

Indeed stable coins are an effective way to store the ownership of the assets we have.  But it's best not to change the assets we have into stable coins for too long.  Because if market conditions have improved, having alt is a more appropriate choice

[masulum]

I had stored most of my funds in the Gold Stablecoin, where you can exchange your Etherium and BTC for Gold. For the time being, I'm seeing that it is as stable as I think. Recently they had a bounty campaign also running, but I think it is still running. This is just my opinion, you can try other stablecoins, according to your research.

You need to be very careful and check the value of your coins continuously, I say this because over the years there have been many coins which claim to be backed by gold and they never last long, so it is possible the coin in which you invested your money is not going to be an exception to this, I think that if you want to be out of this market for some time that is respectable, but if that is the case then you need to get fiat, stable coins are simply to vulnerable to manipulation by those which can create those tokens.

As far as I know, this Gold coin has an audit which you can check through their website. also they have a certificate from Bullionstar. So, for Gold it should be safe. Because you can check the value of the backed gold they have stored in Bullionstar anytime. even so, caution must still be on top an i agree with you, because after all the smart contract system may experience an exploit that can makes investors lost.

I suggest keeping it in USDT only because USDT is really backed by the actual USD that is held in reserve by Tether Limited,

Maybe you can check this article before you say USDT very safe
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/in/investing/cryptocurrency/what-is-tether-usdt/

better to keep your money in your local bank than USDT if you are not trading for a long time 

[Ani1985]

Stable coins in my opinion are safe because they are issued by official companies, the amount of stock stable coins based on real assets so as to make me do not hesitate to stable coins such as USDC, Busd, Tether as coins to store assets so they are not affected by market conditions.

[bitgolden]

Centralized projects mostly have bad ends. We can't hide the huge impact of Luna in the market making many investors worry that any of these days another Stablecoin and a centralized project will follow. Of course, USDT and BUSD still gain trust among stablecoins in the market but we should still be careful as we never know exactly what is their plan.

I can be honest myself that I lose trust in any of them, might it will change in the future but in this current situation, I consider investing in them to be at high risk.

I do agree that Luna had a huge impact, but FTX also had another one, and if we keep being in the bear market we are going to keep seeing more. Do you truly believe that if EVERY person withdrew from their USDT, that won't crash? They can cover 20-30 billion, but could they cover ALL of it? There will be a point where they will say they can't pay everyone back and it would be horrible.

This is what happened with FTX as well, people all wanted to withdraw and caused trouble, same could happen with USDT as well. This is why there is no guarantee that stablecoins are safe, and even the market is not safe and that matters a lot to the users and the investors for stablecoin.

[Jatiluhung]

I had stored most of my funds in the Gold Stablecoin, where you can exchange your Etherium and BTC for Gold. For the time being, I'm seeing that it is as stable as I think. Recently they had a bounty campaign also running, but I think it is still running. This is just my opinion, you can try other stablecoins, according to your research.

I don't know much about this gold stablecoin. I'm a little interested to know. and maybe will start researching about the stablecoin a little. because the price follows the original gold price. then of course the price movement may not be too affected by inflation. So I guess this one is worth looking into. That is about security. because so far I have only used BUSD for stablecoins.

[Minecache]

I had stored most of my funds in the Gold Stablecoin, where you can exchange your Etherium and BTC for Gold. For the time being, I'm seeing that it is as stable as I think. Recently they had a bounty campaign also running, but I think it is still running. This is just my opinion, you can try other stablecoins, according to your research.

I don't know much about this gold stablecoin. I'm a little interested to know. and maybe will start researching about the stablecoin a little. because the price follows the original gold price. then of course the price movement may not be too affected by inflation. So I guess this one is worth looking into. That is about security. because so far I have only used BUSD for stablecoins.

They have a bounty campaign on our forum and it's been running for over 2 years and they're still going. I've known about this stablecoin for quite some time but I still haven't seen it really popular, I think if it really has potential then maybe it would have become popular.
In my opinion, stablecoins are altcoins, which means they are not completely safe but as long as we use them properly, we can limit the risk somewhat.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5164058.0

[tvplus006]

I had stored most of my funds in the Gold Stablecoin, where you can exchange your Etherium and BTC for Gold. For the time being, I'm seeing that it is as stable as I think. Recently they had a bounty campaign also running, but I think it is still running. This is just my opinion, you can try other stablecoins, according to your research.

It is difficult to call it a stablecoin, since its value is tied not to the fiat dollar, but to the value of gold. And given the fact that the value of gold is as volatile as the value of bitcoin, the price of Gold will not be constant against the dollar and, accordingly, will not be able to save you money.

[o48o]

It is difficult to call it a stablecoin, since its value is tied not to the fiat dollar, but to the value of gold. And given the fact that the value of gold is as volatile as the value of bitcoin, the price of Gold will not be constant against the dollar and, accordingly, will not be able to save you money.

Well there are other stable coins tied to different fiat currencies then USD and gold has been pretty stable and holds value better then Fiat money in a long run so i don't see problems calling tokens that are backed by it stablecoins. As long as they indeed are 100% backed by it.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

   - I'm not a fan of stablecoins but when I do p2p transactions I use USDT, which I can't deny helps me withdraw money from a centralized exchange platform.

Maybe somehow I can say that it's safe as long as it's not a big amount, but of course, that depends on your trust. Because I'm doing it now, using binance so far Busd, Usdt, and usdc are okay for me. Other's would agree with me and some are not, but we have our own choice in terms of this matter anyway.

[fullhdpixel]

There are quite a lot of different stablecoins on the market right now, and it's not entirely clear why there are so many of them being produced. If earlier there was only one main coin called USDT, now there are much more of them. Of course, if you study this issue in more detail, it is not recommended to buy stablecoins with a small capitalization. It is better to make your choice towards USDT, since its market capitalization is approximately equal to two stablecoins called USDC and BUSD (Binance USD).

One of them is based on bitfinex exchange basically, but Tether is its own company based on Bahamas, and even with all of that red flag, it reached the peak levels of stablecoin domination, still the biggest by far. USDC is based on coinbase, and they are the most trusted crypto company in the crypto world, the amount of regulations and audits that they go through is insane, not that it is impossible to trick the system, many did, but it would be insanely terrible with insane jail time for them, so they are careful at all turns.

BUSD is binance, which means they are the biggest, not stablecoin BUSD but binance itself, so you know they would want to stay afloat when they are already raking in billions anyway.

[coinerer]

There are quite a lot of different stablecoins on the market right now, and it's not entirely clear why there are so many of them being produced. If earlier there was only one main coin called USDT, now there are much more of them. Of course, if you study this issue in more detail, it is not recommended to buy stablecoins with a small capitalization. It is better to make your choice towards USDT, since its market capitalization is approximately equal to two stablecoins called USDC and BUSD (Binance USD).

BUSD still not safe . because that peg depend in Binance . if Binance exchange crash like a top exchange FTX then BUSD will also crash like Terra peg UST . so in my opinion USDT & USDC i can consider as a safe stablecoin. and i like to hold USDT must of the time. USDC also can be holdable

[DoublerHunter]

There are quite a lot of different stablecoins on the market right now, and it's not entirely clear why there are so many of them being produced. If earlier there was only one main coin called USDT, now there are much more of them. Of course, if you study this issue in more detail, it is not recommended to buy stablecoins with a small capitalization. It is better to make your choice towards USDT, since its market capitalization is approximately equal to two stablecoins called USDC and BUSD (Binance USD).

BUSD still not safe . because that peg depend in Binance . if Binance exchange crash like a top exchange FTX then BUSD will also crash like Terra peg UST . so in my opinion USDT & USDC i can consider as a safe stablecoin. and i like to hold USDT must of the time. USDC also can be holdable

^ It could have an effect on this stable coin if Binance will crash and declare bankruptcy but I don't think BUSD was pegged only on Binance.
I am not on their side but if you will read this it is a more regulated stable coin as of now.
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/understanding-busd-and-binancepeg-busd-5526464425033159282
However, I will not consider stablecoins safe in holding.

[justdimin]

   - I'm not a fan of stablecoins but when I do p2p transactions I use USDT, which I can't deny helps me withdraw money from a centralized exchange platform.

Maybe somehow I can say that it's safe as long as it's not a big amount, but of course, that depends on your trust. Because I'm doing it now, using binance so far Busd, Usdt, and usdc are okay for me. Other's would agree with me and some are not, but we have our own choice in terms of this matter anyway.

Yeah, that is a good way to use it, but there is also the fact that we are not seeing what USDT could be used for online as well. Like if I had a website then I would accept USDT as payment for buying something. I have a friend who is a developer and he sometimes accepts USDT as well, and usually BUSD but generally he accepts stablecoins, not like he rejects crypto neither, but people usually are fine with stablecoins so he works with them, turns them into crypto right away of course after he gets them.

So over all for payment purposes USDT and BUSD are great, what you do afterwards is upto you, but the transaction itself is not a bad idea at all.

[coinerer]

There are quite a lot of different stablecoins on the market right now, and it's not entirely clear why there are so many of them being produced. If earlier there was only one main coin called USDT, now there are much more of them. Of course, if you study this issue in more detail, it is not recommended to buy stablecoins with a small capitalization. It is better to make your choice towards USDT, since its market capitalization is approximately equal to two stablecoins called USDC and BUSD (Binance USD).

BUSD still not safe . because that peg depend in Binance . if Binance exchange crash like a top exchange FTX then BUSD will also crash like Terra peg UST . so in my opinion USDT & USDC i can consider as a safe stablecoin. and i like to hold USDT must of the time. USDC also can be holdable

^ It could have an effect on this stable coin if Binance will crash and declare bankruptcy but I don't think BUSD was pegged only on Binance.
I am not on their side but if you will read this it is a more regulated stable coin as of now.
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/understanding-busd-and-binancepeg-busd-5526464425033159282
However, I will not consider stablecoins safe in holding.

BUSD  is approved by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and they will try to take care this but BUSD own by Binance and it is almost full of depend in Binance . Binance is must popular and trusted crypto exchange that's why people also believe in BUSD but when something will happen with Binance like bankruptcy then busd will also fall its price and it will behave like UST. stay truth

[DanWalker]

The price of Tether (USDT) will eventually collapse, but not now. There are many more things that haven't been audited in USDT, which has caused speculation.

Therefore, USDC exists. Transparency and full backing are the hallmarks of USDC. However, anything is possible now that they can find ways to crash it. If you want to use DAI, you can do so. DAI> USDC > USDT. Yet it's probably not a smart move to invest in stablecoins.

In the past few years, many people predicted USDT would crash, and I still see many people saying the same thing today. However, USDT is still the largest cap and most used stablecoin by far.
Honestly, I see all stablecoins as the same, they are not so different, USDT, USDC, or BUSD are all the same. All are equally concentrated and risky, no one is safer than the other. Their mission is to be an intermediary asset to help us access bitcoin easier, they are not an investment, so there is no need to compare or distinguish, they are not suitable for long-term holding.

[fzkto]

The price of Tether (USDT) will eventually collapse, but not now. There are many more things that haven't been audited in USDT, which has caused speculation.

Therefore, USDC exists. Transparency and full backing are the hallmarks of USDC. However, anything is possible now that they can find ways to crash it. If you want to use DAI, you can do so. DAI> USDC > USDT. Yet it's probably not a smart move to invest in stablecoins.

In the past few years, many people predicted USDT would crash, and I still see many people saying the same thing today. However, USDT is still the largest cap and most used stablecoin by far.
Honestly, I see all stablecoins as the same, they are not so different, USDT, USDC, or BUSD are all the same. All are equally concentrated and risky, no one is safer than the other. Their mission is to be an intermediary asset to help us access bitcoin easier, they are not an investment, so there is no need to compare or distinguish, they are not suitable for long-term holding.

The most important thing is that they are all equally supplied with air. That is, the capitalization of Tether only is $66 billion. And this is much more than the capitalization of real active companies, for example 5 times more than Nissan Motors, which produce real cars, which as well as Tether are used all over the world. Knowing just about this simple math makes me wonder what's going on.