An Introduction to the Tether/Bitfinex Controversy

I RECENTLY RE-WROTE AND RE-WORKED THIS ARTICLE, YOU CAN FIND THE IMPROVED VERSION HERE. https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/08/08/tether-and-bitfinex-introduction/ https://anchor.fm/s/297d9b4/podcast/rss https://youtu.be/1bWegLXn7Mc Bitfinex is one of the historically largest Bitcoin exchanges and Tether is by far the largest stablecoin. Each potentially has significant influence over the industry on their own, and their interconnectedness makes this more of a concern. However, … Continue reading An Introduction to the Tether/Bitfinex Controversy →

The Time Brock Pierce DMed Me

One of the best things about Twitter is all the different people that you get to meet and communicate with. For example, the founder of Tether (infamously sued for child sexual abuse and arrested in a house full of child pornography) would semi-regularly talk to several of us Tether skeptics in threads. In one he … Continue reading The Time Brock Pierce DMed Me →

Untethered Tether: Old Developments

Note: This post is out of date but is part of my transition away from Medium. So today we are going to take a look at some of the Tether drama that has occurred over the last week or so, and it gets interesting fast. Background: There has been a theory for a while now that … Continue reading Untethered Tether: Old Developments →