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I'm really shocked this panic hasn't set in yet, I would have bet otherwise. I wonder if it'll be a slow slide all the way down.
by diab0lic 9y ago
I'm really shocked this panic hasn't set in yet, I would have bet otherwise. I wonder if it'll be a slow slide all the way down.
- Analemma_ 9y agoI imagine it will kick in when the truth comes out about Tether and USDT becomes worthless. Right now the evidence is overwhelming, but there's still no smoking gun. When Tether/Bitfinex declares bankruptcy, or the CEO is arrested at the airport trying to flee to Vanuatu with a suitcase full of cash; that'll be when the bloodbath starts.
- makomk 9y agoThe evidence makes no sense. We're supposed to believe that Bitfinex printed Tethers and used them to buy Bitcoins on their exchange - whose on-exchange USD reserves aren't even backed by USDT and aren't meant to be[1] - and this somehow caused a price bubble that mainly seemed to be driven by GDAX/Coinbase judging from the price differences between the exchanges and trading volumes, even though they don't deal in Tether at all. Not only that, it's just too small - for comparison, the total amount of Tether printed as of the end of 2017 was about $1 billion, roughly the same as Coinbase's revenue from fees in 2017. (Another billion or so has been printed since, but that was all after the Bitcoin price peaked.) There's some circumstantial evidence that they may or may not have been printing unbacked Tether to keep the price at parity, but that's a far cry from powering the Bitcoin bubble. [1] They were sort of a Tether exchange in the sense that for a while it was the only way for most people to withdraw USD balances, but they only kept a relatively small amount of USDT on hand to cover withdrawals.
- donkeyd 9y agoPossibly the 'hodl' meme doing its thing?