That's why "altcoins" were invented. So, any other "coins" besides Bitcoin are considered altcoins, even these stablecoins.

I agree with @Slow death; stablecoins will stay just like how we have them different fiat currencies per country. They have their own markets, anyone can use them, but them being centralized are the totallly different how Bitcoin works.

"Shipping" Is not a crypto term used in place of "transaction",  I guess you are referring to transaction fee here which depending on the chain network you are using, it can be free or extremely low (cheap).


Irrespective of stablecoins being centralized, they have a true purpose they serve to investors (traders and Bitcoin holders) and the crypto ecosystem at large. It doesn't stop anyone from understanding the importance of decentralization.

For example, those Bitcoin investors who took profits by selling their Bitcoin when the price was still above $120k per BTC benefited from doing so. If they hadn't sold then, the price of Bitcoin would still have dipped, and they would have been sitting in a floating loss waiting for the price to pump again. Instead, they sold their Bitcoin for stablecoins, and now that the price of Bitcoin has fallen, they have the opportunity to use those stablecoins to buy more Bitcoin and increase their holdings.

Assuming I sold 1 BTC last year for $125k (USDT) and held the $125k USDT until last month, then decided to buy Bitcoin again when the price dipped to $58k, I would have bought 2.156 BTC. What does that tell you? It tells you that I was able to preserve both my capital and profits in a stable form, protecting them from Bitcoin's price volatility. I was also able to acquire more Bitcoin than I originally sold during the bull market because I temporarily locked in my profits with stablecoins. This clearly demonstrates the value of stablecoins in relation to Bitcoin and the crypto space.

Have you ever asked yourself why you don't usually see BTC/BTC trading pairs in futures, but instead see BTC/USDT or BTC/USDC? That's because you cannot meaningfully trade Bitcoin against Bitcoin or against another asset that has a similarly high degree of price volatility. You need stablecoins to lock in your profits at a fixed value that won't be significantly affected by the high price swings of the other asset.

Stable coins are useful but dangerous and it's not safe to store your fund or wealth in stable coins.

Stable coins can depeg and your portfolio, fund, wealth will vapor quickly in value if depeg happens to trigger a death spiral of a stable coin, such as Terra stable coin UST.

There is another risk, stable coins are centralized and can be frozen even in non custodial wallets.
PSA: Most Stablecoins Can Be Frozen, Even in Your Own Wallets.
Stable coins and blacklists.
Stable coins frozen by issuers.

Having stable coin close to bitcoin being detailed in position does not mean anything, I would have focused on how stablecoins has been widely used and also consider its numerous ways it has been serving the same purpose through which we may try to even acquire Bitcoin with stablecoins, consider the other from coinmarketcap and see how all these are being given preference to, today you will have to use a stable current in most cases to exchange for any other coin of your choice you wanted to invest and hold including Bitcoin.

Stablecoins are not literally a Coin, they are token because they were built on already existing blockchain.

USDT TRON
USDT ETH
USDT SOL
USDT BSC
USDT TON etc...

Stablecoins and Bitcoin are differently built, separate roles and how we should use them. I'm not going to buy stablecoin because I want to maximize profits from my investment, and if I want to maintain a stable worth of asset over a period, that's when to use stablecoins.

Bitcoin = store of value/hedging asset.

Stablecoin = medium of exchange based on fiat tokenization.

Both of things already in the different dimension. I think you're just overthinking about stablecoin while you have even aware and said that how stablecoins are also boosting bitcoin. Beside that the fact is that most of bitcoin volume are ceoncentrated in the stable coins pair.

I don't think it's about separating stablecoins from crypto, but rather differentiating between Bitcoin and altcoins, which stablecoins fall under. Frankly, only Bitcoin is decentralized; everything else isn't. So, it's more about altcoins, as they're nothing more than tokens, not on the same level as Bitcoin. While they're preferred by many for their speed, etc., Bitcoin still stands in its own category and shouldn't be compared to altcoins.

The concept of Stablecoins are not in the same category as bitcoin. While bitcoin paved the way for the cryptocurrency ecosystem, stablecoins were created  to serve a different purpose, they’re pegged to fiats to enable easy exchange of coins. There’s no way they are put in the same sentence or category as bitcoin, they’re Altcoins.

I think for now they’re still very much useful, you just have to be careful when using it and ensure not to store large funds in it for a long time as they can be frozen at any time since they’re centralised.

Literally, Bitcoin is a coin and stablecoins are tokens.

People must learn and be able to differentiate between coins and tokens.
Definition of tokens.

It's freedom so let altcoins to be put next to Bitcoin, either they are Bitcoin forks (shitforks) or altcoins or tokens. I see no serious issue here. Bitcoin is strong and will stay, altcoins, shitforks, shittokens will die because they are weak.
How many Bitcoin forks?