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c/cryptopay·submitted 5 months ago by u/kian_ekstrom

unpopular opinion: USDC is massively overrated

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking gas fees against triglycerides for 17 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here. Caveats up front: one person, one lab,…

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u/vikram_mbeki7 points·5 months ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is confirmations. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/kian_ekstromOP1 point·5 months ago

Which network and did the vendor confirm they credit it?

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