I'm not sure they have a choice. Binance is leveraged to the max with tether already; they likely can't afford to pay FTX real-world currency for the purchase.

I'm not sure they have a choice. Binance is leveraged to the max with tether already; they likely can't afford to pay FTX real-world currency for the purchase. They'd have to offer tether or other vaporcoins as payment, at which point FTX might as well just keep its vaporcoins instead