There is risk in the banking system:
"The Federal Reserve is a trusted party in all three senses of maker, man-ager, and mediator - it is the monetary trinity.
The Fed makes the dollar.
The Fed manages the funds of other banks.
And the Fed ultimately serves as the central mediator for digital dollar transactions through services like Fed Wire.
In sum, managers offer convenience and peace of mind. Mediators maintain financial plumbing. And makers enable economic stability and exchange through a common medium. Users of modern money trust these parties to do their jobs well. This is a tradeoff and involves risk. As cypher-punk Nick Szabo says, trusted parties are "security holes." Managers sometimes fail, leaving their customers with pennies on the dollar. Mediators sometimes block lawful commerce. Makers also make mistakes. They might print too much money and, as inflation soars, put on the brakes too late. Then they might slam the brakes too hard and, as a recession looms, keep the brakes on for too long. Sometimes makers know which levels they'll pull and, as private citizens, execute a series of, let's say, well-timed trades in the stock market. This is insider trading, not with company stock, but with what company stocks trade against - a national currency.
As a group, these trusted parties can and sometimes do imperil our financial privacy, our funds, our freedom to use them as we'd like, and their value. Some will judge that the benefits of trusted parties outweigh the risk. They might be right. It might also be true that we would benefit from having options without one or more of these trusted parties so that participating in the economy doesn't force us into a single set of tradeoffs."
- Resistance Money
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