It is a scam as we all saw yesterday. There is no if or but about it anymore.
It is official Tether is a fraud
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It is a scam as we all saw yesterday. There is no if or but about it anymore.
Please explain why it is a fantasy, when 75% of volume is done in tethers, and recently around 1 billion of tethers was printed daily. About a month ago, printing was at 200 million per day.
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Jurisdiction. This is also a private company without stocks or possibly board members. The point is, they are only responsible for themselves. Their banking is in the Caribbean. It is also crypto, thus unregulated market, prime target for fraudsters.
It also looks like a duck...
Ah, forgot to mention the funniest part: They are legally NOT OBLIGATED to redeem Tethers. So if an exchange makes the transfer to dollars, you are in good luck, but the issuing company does not care and can not be forced to do so.
No, it shows that the money is invested. The fraudulent nature of the investments can not be decided from this data. If Paolo gave me a cool Billion because I want to dig tunnels under Miami in the soft sand, would you call that responsible investment? I mean Elon Musk thinks it is a good idea, so should be peachy...
Also some of the money is lent out as DeFi loans with 11% interest IIRC, how long can that be a safe investment? Madoff did it for 20 years, so I guess another 15 years?
Because 1) all DeFi loans are on the back of 200% collateral, ie put up 2 ETH and I'll lend you 1, and 2) the DeFi protocol can easily be audited via auditing the code hence no dirty tricks can be played (assuming there's not a genuine or devious hackers bug in the code which has happened in the past).
Contrast this to Madoff where EVERYTHING was very hush hush, nobody was allowed to look at the books or even get within 100 yards of them. All clients got every month was that statement showing around +1%...
One of the main goals of DeFi is to clear up the financial services industry, making everything very transparent. This is why it's been growing at 100s of % a year and will continue to do so.
Many of the traditional bankers, who struggle with setting up an iPad, don't know the trouble they're in. Granted, traditional banking is not going away and both CeFi and DeFi can and will co-exist. But the growth from DeFi is going to come from the protocols eating into the CeFi business like Packman, yum yum...
For all you know is all that commercial paper is backed by bitcoins lol
Yep, tethers backed by Bitcoin that is proped up by tethers that is backed by Bitcoin .....
Because the DAE (Digital Asset Ecosystem which is far more than just BTC) is exploding so the demand for a liquid asset to trade/arb/market make etc is also exploding.
You'll come around eventually Duke because I don't believe the saying of you can't teach old dogs new tricks!
Storing of value and transferring of money. Lol, there you go again. You know, just saying shit, does not mean anything. I guess that is what Millennials and gen Zs never learned, that an argument and point only has validity when it's backed up by solid support.