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Re:Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securi... by dzdt on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:04PM (#19794182)
"We have been informed that" is lawyerspeak that has as an implication of "we don't actually believe the following and it almost certainly isn't true, but what we were told is..."
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Re:Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securi... by jcranmer on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:32AM (#19794548)
And "seized and safeguarded" itself sounds suspiciously like a polite way of saying "our accounts are frozen on suspicion of financial regulations (and/or money laundering), and we hope to be able to successfully defend ourselves in court."
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