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How is your currency real if it has to rely on a centralized currency like USD to be functional? It feels like a failure of decentralized currency if it has to be a parasite on a decentralized currency. Surely the success metric for decentralized currencies has to be that they replace centralized currency right? That was bitcoins purpose, if it doesnt do that, then whats the point?


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