Interest free loan is now up on lendasat
So far the loan book is growing! Soon it will be at $1k
Goal is to end fractional reserve lending one loan at a time!
Using bitcoin as collateral!
Risk of loss/default falls to near zero with over collateralized lending.
Isn't all lending fractional reserve?
If I lend you my bike is it fractional reserve?
If you just lend it to me without any security, I'd say it is an unsecured loan and there is no reserve at all.
When people say fractional reserve don't they mean that a bank or something loans out more money than they have on deposit?
Here's something I often think about (but struggle to understand):
This is from Voskuil's Full Reserve Fallacy
The way I currently understand it is that in order to land something out, you must risk that you will not get it back. Otherwise you haven't actually lent it out.
The term fractional reserve originates from the banks obligation to keep a percentage (fraction) of reserves compared to loans issued. That obligation no longer exists.
This means that for any amount deposited in the bank, it can lend any amount greater than that deposit.
This is only possible in a fiat currency scheme where there's no money, only currency (debt) issued by the author.
I am having a hard time understanding this
I have a hard time understanding most of Voskuil's stuff. I find the exercise of thinking about it is usually fruitful (unclear whether the credit belongs to Voskuil or not).
Then why does collateral exist?
I wish it was actually lendasat. As in I could borrow bitcoin and then pay it back rather than fiat backed by bitcoin.
True maybe someday when our liabilities can be fulfilled with sats
with fiatcoins, lol
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