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Did that ever come out of the pool of money that went into minting the tether? Or was it just more consumers getting in while others got out?

ttul 4y ago
Considering that no serious and credible audit has ever before verified the backing of USDT, I think we all can agree it is a Ponzi scheme, through and through.
yreg 4y ago
Tether itself is shady and I have my doubts about them, but the concept is simple. You mint some coins and sell them for $1 each. Then watch the exchanges and any time the price is above $1 you mint some coins and sell them. Any time the price is below $1 you buy some coins and burn them. Doing this and only this you should always have more dollars in hand than the amount of coins in circulation.
- 0xffff2 4y ago
  >any time the price is above $1 you mint some coins and sell them What if you run out of dollars and the price is still above $1?
  - mcintyre1994 4y ago
    I don’t think there’s any serious risk of the price getting stuck above $1, because there’s no reason for anyone to buy at that price. Unless it de-pegs completely and becomes a totally speculative asset and everyone just ignores the offer to buy them for $1 I guess?
  - yreg 4y ago
    You don't run out of dollars in this case. Each time you mint a token and sell it, you earn at least a dollar for the treasury.
- thaway2839 4y ago
  But why is anyone else buying Tether at above $1 if the entire strategy is based on selling above $1 and buying below $1? You can't just sell something. For someone to sell something someone else needs to buy the same thing. So to be able to execute the strategy correctly, you need an anti-human or anti-robot that always executes the strategy absolutely incorrectly.
  - yreg 4y ago
    >But why is anyone else buying Tether at above $1 If I want to pay Bob $100, I will buy 100 coins, never mind whether they currently cost $0.998 or $1.002 each on my particular exchange. So the issuer needs to constantly mint or burn tokens to match the market demand in such a way that it stays as close to $1 as possible.[1] >For someone to sell something someone else needs to buy the same thing. That someone is not some rando person, that someone is marketmaker whose business is in filling out the orderbook. [1] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tether https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tether – see the chart for market cap, since the tokens costs $1 it is almost the same as the chart of total number of tokens over time

ttul 4y ago

Considering that no serious and credible audit has ever before verified the backing of USDT, I think we all can agree it is a Ponzi scheme, through and through.

yreg 4y ago

Tether itself is shady and I have my doubts about them, but the concept is simple. You mint some coins and sell them for $1 each. Then watch the exchanges and any time the price is above $1 you mint some coins and sell them. Any time the price is below $1 you buy some coins and burn them. Doing this and only this you should always have more dollars in hand than the amount of coins in circulation.

0xffff2 4y ago
>any time the price is above $1 you mint some coins and sell them What if you run out of dollars and the price is still above $1?
- mcintyre1994 4y ago
  I don’t think there’s any serious risk of the price getting stuck above $1, because there’s no reason for anyone to buy at that price. Unless it de-pegs completely and becomes a totally speculative asset and everyone just ignores the offer to buy them for $1 I guess?
- yreg 4y ago
  You don't run out of dollars in this case. Each time you mint a token and sell it, you earn at least a dollar for the treasury.
thaway2839 4y ago
But why is anyone else buying Tether at above $1 if the entire strategy is based on selling above $1 and buying below $1? You can't just sell something. For someone to sell something someone else needs to buy the same thing. So to be able to execute the strategy correctly, you need an anti-human or anti-robot that always executes the strategy absolutely incorrectly.
- yreg 4y ago
  >But why is anyone else buying Tether at above $1 If I want to pay Bob $100, I will buy 100 coins, never mind whether they currently cost $0.998 or $1.002 each on my particular exchange. So the issuer needs to constantly mint or burn tokens to match the market demand in such a way that it stays as close to $1 as possible.[1] >For someone to sell something someone else needs to buy the same thing. That someone is not some rando person, that someone is marketmaker whose business is in filling out the orderbook. [1] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tether https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tether – see the chart for market cap, since the tokens costs $1 it is almost the same as the chart of total number of tokens over time