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📓 Today's Agenda :
💡 Tether Attempts to Win Trust, and Avoid (more) Lawsuits
🤯 Coinbase CEO says he’ll shut down ETH staking if…
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Tether is the biggest stablecoin on the market, holding next to $68B in reserves.
But their history is a lot like the Trump tax returns we never got to see...
Tether has repeatedly refused audits, facing major backlash for lack of transparency in their reserves.
Long story short:
They claimed to be backed by cold, hard cash.
Turned out, like Kim K's butt, that was fake news.
Tether was forced to admit they're also backed by other assets, and no one really knows what they are.
Now they're trying to save face by hiring BDO Italia to audit them.
Tether Announces Alignment With Top Five Accounting Firm And Confirms Attestations Will Now Be Completed By BDO Italia
tether.to/en/tether-anno…— Tether (@Tether_to)
12:01 PM • Aug 18, 2022
This is an attempt to be less sus and prove they are 💯
But will it work?
Warriors: Tether has been able to withstand every single attack on it. Enduring $7B in withdrawals one to one and a couple $20M+ fines for being sus about their reserves..
With this move, they might become stablecoin kings. Or still go to zero. TBD.
Remember: Yesterday JP Morgan bet that staking would be very profitable for Coinbase, citing juicy yields. 💰💰💰
But given the current environment of:
SEC investigations
Tornado Cash Sanctions
& Government Talks of Regulation
The community wanted to know what Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, would do hYpOtHetiCalLY if asked to censor ETH protocol:
This was his response:
@LidoFinance@coinbase@krakenfx@stakedus@BitcoinSuisseAG It's a hypothetical we hopefully won't actually face. But if we did we'd go with B i think. Got to focus on the bigger picture. There may be some better option (C) or a legal challenge as well that could help reach a better outcome.
— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong)
9:32 PM • Aug 17, 2022
Why I love this.
Coinbase would rather shut down staking, and suffer a huge loss of revenue, than get involved in the business of censorship and sanctions.
Principle over profits.
This makes me bullish about Coinbase.
One of the Holy Pillars of crypto is that it's permissionless. Sanctions are antithetical to crypto. We have to protect crypto fundamentals or else we may see the entire infrastructure crumble.
This is setting a beautiful example for the rest of the exchanges to follow.
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