PART ONE CAN BE FOUND HERE
PART TWO CAN BE FOUND HERE
Cas Piancey, my writing partner and friend, and I are doing several episodes on the history and controversy surrounding Bitfinex and Tether.
This episode is focused on questions we have gotten about Bitfinex and Tether.
You can find the episode here: https://anchor.fm/cas-piancey/episodes/Tether-QA-ev2aun/a-a594gfe
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Tether has released a brand new attestation (archive) (my copy) showing that they are fully backed! Well, it shows that for at least one entire minute Tether was fully backed.
Continue reading “Tether’s New Attestation: Thanks For Nothing”
PART ONE CAN BE FOUND HERE
PART THREE CAN BE FOUND HERE
Cas Piancey, my writing partner and friend, and I are doing several episodes on the history and controversy surrounding Bitfinex and Tether.
This episode is mostly focused on the post hack history. We discuss banking, insolvency, and unbacked Tethers.
You can find the episode here: https://anchor.fm/cas-piancey/episodes/Tether-A-Stable-Discussion-Part-II-es1dgc/a-a4sa0qn
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PART TWO CAN BE FOUND HERE
PART THREE CAN BE FOUND HERE
Cas Piancey, my writing partner and friend, and I are doing several episodes on the history and controversy surrounding Bitfinex and Tether.
This episode is mostly focused on the early history of Bitfinex and Tether, leading up to the second Bitfinex hack. Next episode we should hopefully get into some of the backing issues that the New York Attorney General helped expose.
You can find the episode here: https://anchor.fm/cas-piancey/episodes/Tether-A-Stable-Discussion-erhp88/a-a4qn2vm
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If you spend any significant amount of time on crypto twitter, especially as a contrarian or a skeptic, you will inevitably come across accounts that seem less than genuine. These bots, sock puppets, or intelligence deficient accounts are a nuisance, but their role in crypto is more complex than their limited speech will convey.
Continue reading “Sockpuppets, Bots, and Crypto: Oh My!”In 2017 Tether was issuing unbacked Tethers. This has been confirmed as part of their settlement with the New York Attorney’s General office. As an exercise in trying to ensure that I have not become overly biased around Tether what I will attempt to do in this article is construct the best case scenario for how Tether’s business was operating.
Continue reading “The Best Case Scenario for Tether’s Activities in 2017”
Bitfinex and Tether have settled with the New York Attorney General. The settlement document can be found here. (My copy) Many seem to find the document exculpatory, but I find it damning.
Continue reading “Analysis of the Tether/Bitfinex NYAG Settlement”Crypto Capital Corp is a licensed (in Panama (archive) [for one of the corporations]), unlicensed (My copy) (just about everywhere else) money transmitter and payment processor. They partnered with a variety of cryptocurrency companies including: Kraken, Bitfinex, Quadriga, Bitmex, Coinapault, and more. They are implicated in wire fraud, bank fraud, embezzlement, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of money laundering for the Colombian cartels.
Continue reading “What is Crypto Capital Corp?”UPDATE: I MAKE THE CLAIM THAT BITFINEX LIED ABOUT OWNING TETHER, THIS IS TRUE BUT I WANTED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CONTEXT HERE
Recently I was asked to do a guest lecture on Bitfinex and Tether. You can find it here: https://whu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?tid=f0fca2e9-f79e-4f81-b659-acd30078104e
YouTube version:
My uploaded version:
You can find the slides here.
You can find the references here.
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Isola Capital, a Chinese “asset management and family office platform“, arose from Deltec. Their about page proudly proclaimed:
Continue reading “Isola, Deltec, Tether, and You”