> Broadly any organisation which most of its business is taking deposits on a short term basis and lending them out on longer, fixed terms can be deemed a "bank" and analysed as such
uh. no, it really can't. you can't even do this with a credit union.
if you think the major purpose of a bank is to store deposits, you don't understand what banks are.
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> But the business is definitely bank-shaped.
holding deposits is not "being bank shaped"
many, many things in our society hold desposits, from insurance companies to blue chips, to stocks and investments, from annuities to rollovers, from awards to grants, from credit accounts to coupons, and even the local layaway
none of them are even slightly banks
the purpose of a bank is to give certainty by being bound to specific laws
i know, when i put my money in a bank, that it won't be invested by the bank in specific dangerous ways. i do not know that with a credit union. i definitely do not know that with some coin dot com that you imagine to be bank shaped.
this post is about coin holders learning one of the many differences
many banks - more than half - don't take deposits at all
this is a deep failure to grasp what a bank is, and why this isn't a bank
the crypto community is about to start learning about bank bindings around leverage that emerged in the 1920s
afterwards they're going to learn about floor limits that were set on actual banks in the 1930s, and why
after that, they're going to learn about the fdic, and that it doesn't apply to things that fans believe are "bank shaped"