The investment research firm and short-seller Hindenburg Research has offered a USD 1m reward for information on how the tether (USDT) stablecoin is actually pegged to the United States dollar, and data on how Tether’s deposits actually work. In a strongly worded response, Tether called the “bounty” “cynical,” and called Hindenburg’s announcement “a pathetic bid for attention.”…
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Tether has allegedly been lending stablecoins backed by cryptocurrency deposits, according to new reports….
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Its sister company, crypto exchange Bitfinex, was also hit with a $1.5 million fine by the CFTC….
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lecoin-tether">report that it claimed was full of “outlandish anecdotes” and “character assassination.”Tether has previously claimed to have drawn a line under the matter of whether or not it actually has the funds it says underpins the USD-pegged token by publishing results of an “audit…….
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ment.The crypto market dived following the news. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped by 5% in an hour, hitting USD 43,234 (09:42 UTC), while <a target="_blank" rel=“noopener noreferrer” href=“https://cryptonews.com……
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Ethereum is among the market’s top gainers following a rally that took the token’s price back above $3,600….
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Vitalik Buterin. Source: a screenshot, YouTube/ETHWORLD.
Ethereum (ETH) cofounder Vitalik Buterin decided to do "a random twitter experiment" answering his followers’ many questions - stating that his biggest Ethereum regret is the idea of eight cofounders, and that he was too confident in the network’s speed of moving to proof-of-stake (PoS), further touching on a number of…
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eToro saw 121% user growth in Q2, but its CEO warns that potential regulation of DeFi could impact some of the tokens eToro recently added….
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The tether (USDT) that was frozen by its issuer Tether during the recent Poly Network hack have been returned to their rightful owners, Tether announced. However, this has raised concerns that this particular part of the cryptocurrency space is not as decentralized as it claims to be.
On Wednesday, the official Twitter account of Tether announced that they had…
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