We might have to confirm for sure that USD is hyper-inflating

Given the Fed has been accelerating fiat creation for several years now, and the super acceleration most recently it's coming. They've masked it for years between import slave labor coupled with immigration and spreading the misery worldwide as the world currency. Those tricks are used up.

I've never studied the math behind the chain, but I've always wondered why a stable coin would fluctuate as that seems to defeat the designation/purpose of stable. I really should understand the mechanisms they employ. I never bothered as my sole focus has always been on the Hive (Steem before) coin. I always viewed HBD as a nuisance for the most part, lol.

I never thought about it the way you framed, when you pointed out that we too are chaining ourselves to the inflationary dictates of the Federal Reserve. I'm not sure what other framework one could use, and understand the use is due to people wanting to have a value comparison both familiar and practical, as fiat is what is used to purchase most everything. Even something like gold, which is also manipulated, would be subject to the whims of outside influences.

Will be curious to read more informed/knowledgeable back and forth so I can shed some of my ignorance on this.