JPMorgan and Citi are building a tokenized deposit system to "answer crypto."
The banks that spent a decade calling Bitcoin a fraud are now scrambling to copy stablecoins before stablecoins replace them.
This is what I'm afraid of. Bitcoin is a direct threat to bankers and the state. The same people that live like gods using our money is NOT going to let that go, and they WILL be capable of anything to keep being the elite.
The irony runs deeper - they're not just copying stablecoins, they're validating the entire premise that money needs to be programmable and globally accessible. But tokenized deposits still carry counterparty risk and regulatory capture that Bitcoin and properly-backed stablecoins don't. They're building a bridge to nowhere.