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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Trade your nubits to BitUSD on bter.com NOW, before they become worthless!
by
Shuai
on 16/01/2015, 18:23:50 UTC
Shareholders of a dual currency with reserve have no incentive to actually use the reserve for its purpose. Since there is also no law that forces them to do it anyway, the reserve model is not applicable as long as the shareholders act as rational agents.

The backing has to be done within the system, and right now I don't see any project (neither NuBits nor BitUSD) which does this in a completely convincing manner. Although at least at NuBits those things are heavily discussed.

In total I agree with Omnivion, that it will be extremely interesting to see how these things turn out. However, I personally would like to see a dual currency succeeding, because they in fact fulfill a need.

BitUSD is fully backed within the system, you can see the status of the on-blockchain locked collateral here:

http://bitsharesblocks.com/assets/market

You can see the orderbook for the collateral here:

http://www.btc38.com/trade.html?btc38_trade_coin_name=bts

You can read how market pegged assets function here:

http://whatisbitusd.com/whitepaper/

Also 24H BTC/BitUSD volume on bter is now 80 bitcoin with a nice order book: https://bter.com/trade/btc_bitusd