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Dagonfly • today at 8:09 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

The lession learned is: Tether now exists as a casino chip central bank. They can just freeze and print more and provide a backstop to the major CEXs.

Of course, Tether runs completely counter to any of the idealistic claims about crypto.


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_heimdall • today at 10:34 AM

That shouldn't need to be a lesson learned though. Its been obvious from the beginning of tether and reinforced by how interested governments are in the idea of stable coins and CBDCs.