and I am saying this as someone who invested in Bitshares and it's precursor Protoshares. I still hold ~100k of BTSX.
> They are a game-theoretically incentive compatible way to stabilize a currency WITHOUT a trusted monopoly producer.
This is the biggest fallacy in cryptocurrency scene. People think everything can be mathematically modeled. Absolutely not. Everyone will act rationally in a given situation. Absolutely not.
If that were the case we would solved all the problems in the world using some kind of game theory function.
Edit: Oops looks like I deleted the SNB example. Here's what happened:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-snb/swiss-draw-line...
SNB drew and held a line at 1.20 for EUR/CHF pair. No cryptocurrency can repeat that feat.