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What does "pegged" even mean unless Tether is always willing to pay 1 USD for one? Then who would sell their tether for $0.99, at a loss?
by MockObject 4y ago
What does "pegged" even mean unless Tether is always willing to pay 1 USD for one? Then who would sell their tether for $0.99, at a loss?
- oneoff786 4y agoTether is not willing to do this
- MockObject 4y agoSo their idea of pegging is just a forcefully worded request?
- oneoff786 4y agoMore of a vague promise to buy. They have a lot of dollars. If tether skips to 99 cents will they buy it from people to push the price up? Maybe. It’s been sitting at 99.9 for several days now.
- lmm 4y ago"Sure, it's pegged, Anyone who fills in the right forms can get their USD back. After a few weeks. And if the request is big enough. Oh, but there was a problem with your form. Sorry. Try correcting it and resubmitting it. No, we can't tell you what the problem was."
- ohgodplsno 4y agoThose who bought it at 0.9999954 and resell it at 0.9999978, making less than pennies on the dollar, but still profit. Then you make a chain of suckers until it goes back to 1USD
- jallen_dot_dev 4y agoTether will only redeem amounts of $100k or more. The vast majority of people get out of USDT by selling it on the market. Depending on how many people want to sell, how quickly they want to, and how many market makers are willing/able to arb it back up to $1.00, you might just take $0.99 instead.
- thehappypm 4y agoThis is exactly what keeps it at $1. If someone is willing to sell at $.99 then the number of buyers is gigantic. Ditto with someone buying at $1.01. That’s why it’s news when the peg drops by more than a fraction at a penny. As for why would someone buy or sell for other than $1.00? Plenty of reasons, if a market opportunity to make 10% in a crypto investment pops up, damn right people will liquidate tether at a slight loss