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USDT has a strong following in APAC countries. Also for some crypto users part of its allure is that it’s vaguely sketchy - it means they are less likely to hav
by seibelj 7y ago
USDT has a strong following in APAC countries. Also for some crypto users part of its allure is that it’s vaguely sketchy - it means they are less likely to have their funds blacklisted, a feature which Tether maintains the ability to do but has never enforced as far as I’m aware.
If you are getting into the space now USDC is an audited stablecoin backed by Coinbase and Circle which has the second highest issuance after Tether. Most likely you would prefer USDC over tether.
https://www.circle.com/en/usdc https://www.circle.com/en/usdc
- carbocation 7y agoIf you want to buy cryptocurrency, why not just buy Bitcoin? In contrast, I don't see a worthy reason to sell US dollars for any stablecoin.
- homero 7y agoIt helps with transferring cash between exchanges
- carbocation 7y agoAny quantity of Bitcoin can be transferred between exchanges for pennies these days.
- baby 7y agoLook at the marketcap of tether. There's obviously a use case.
- Semaphor 7y agoI always thought Tether is mainly used for parking money when trading.
- theturtletalks 7y agoMy buddy was telling me he transferred bitcoin from one exchange to another. When he sold his bitcoin, he got taxed at the full value of what he sold the coin for not just his gains. Couldn’t he have just parked his funds and basically used that as a bank account?
- reissbaker 7y agoWho did the tax collection? Did the exchange collect it automatically, or did your buddy do the filing? If the former, the exchange is sketchy; if the latter, your friend messed up. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/bitcoin-taxes/ https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/bitcoin-taxes/
- theturtletalks 7y agoHe did the filing with the tax form that company sent. I think the exchange he transferred from was sketchy or not confirmed. In that case, when you sell, they show the full price.
- astura 7y agoI mean even if the exchange messed up and took out more tax than they should have, he would just fix that at tax filing time and get a refund. If the exchange was overseas/super sketchy it's possible that the exchange just plain stole some of his money and claimed it was "for taxes."
- repomies68 7y agoThe exchanges don't collect taxes. Tax office probably requested information from the exchange and the exchange complied, and the tax office calculated the total amount withdrawn as taxable. The idea that an exchange would be calculating taxes is ridiculous.
- JauntyHatAngle 7y agoPeople use it to transfer between crypto and FIAT (representation). You can park it outside the crypto market, ready to buy back into crypto at any moment.
- duxup 7y ago"vaguely sketchy" What does that mean? That doesn't sound like a positive thing.
- dmix 7y ago> it means they are less likely to have their funds blacklisted
- H8crilA 7y agoThere are theories that USDT is not actually (fully) backed by dollars, and instead just minted to push BTC value up. https://www.tetherreport.com/ https://www.tetherreport.com/
- floodyberry- 7y agoI think it means seibelj works for Circle and is shilling their stablecoin. The irony is that the entirety of "crypto" outside of the people doing the academic work for it is not just vaguely sketchy, but extremely sketchy.
- repomies68 7y agoWell, don't know for these stablecoins but to me the "normal crypto" meaning bitcoin is very easy to understand and use. It is like commodity nowadays - it is up to the user whether to use it for scetchy things or for normal things.
- r32a_ 7y agoTether is technologically superior and has 90% of marketshare compared to any other stable coin. If FUD scares you then crypto trading is not for you
- XMPPwocky 7y agoI'm working on a new project that detects when cryptocurrency people use the word "FUD" and automatically triggers a giant novelty boxing glove to come out of their monitor and bop them in the nose.
- shawabawa3 7y agoTechnologically superior? The Omni implementation is being dropped by binance because it's so slow and expensive and they're using the erc20 token instead - exactly what USDC uses
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- jnordwick 7y agoDo you want to disclose that work for Circle? So maybe your opinion might be as like, more than a little biased?
- trophycase 7y agoNot OP and not a Circle employee but he is absolutely right if, especially if you are a US citizen.
- FDSGSG 7y ago> So maybe your opinion might be as like, more than a little biased? Why would that make his opinion any less bias based? Most opinions tend to be like that. Is there any specific opinion in his comment you object to? I've dissected the comment below, it should be easy to point out the specific part that bothers you. - Opinions where the employer seems completely irrelevant: > USDT has a strong following in APAC countries > Also for some crypto users part of its allure is that it’s vaguely sketchy - it means they are less likely to have their funds blacklisted, - Simple statements of fact: >a feature which Tether maintains the ability to do but has never enforced as far as I’m aware >USDC is an audited stablecoin backed by Coinbase and Circle which has the second highest issuance after Tether - A possibly biased opinion, (But really just a fact, USDC is far less likely to disappear overnight than USDT. Anyone familiar with both will agree.) >Most likely you would prefer USDC over tether.
- dagenix 7y agoseibelj has a link to his twitter account in his profile. On that account, its quite clear he works for Circle. IMO, it's pretty unethical to promote this type of investment without revealing that conflict of interest. It's also par for the course with crypto coins.
- solveit 7y agoUSDC is exactly not an investment, but otherwise you're not wrong.
- colechristensen 7y agoIt is enormously difficult to promote securities legally. Disclosing a conflict of interest is the tip of the iceberg.
- tomatocracy 7y agoYes. And even if you do all that and stay on the right side of the regulators, you’re not out of the woods. You then have to do additional work to minimise the chance that investors successfully sue you later too if they lose money. And you need to do all that in every jurisdiction you touch, plus likely the US even if you don’t touch it.
- seibelj 7y agoUSDC is not a security, anyone can buy it accredited or not without going to a broker dealer. It's an asset backed stablecoin and you don't buy it as an investment, it's a tool to tokenize USD to get it onto the crypto network rails. It also is the #2 stablecoin by marketcap. I will disclose that I know way more about this industry than all of you commenting that I'm "shilling" as if this is some altcoin scam. Welcome to crypto