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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by wpietri on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:45PM (#23146833)
HN's own patio11 has an excellent long explainer on Tether: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by DarthGhandi on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:43PM (#23147458)
Here he is getting worked up about it in 2017 and claiming it's on par with Mt. Gox and only has months left: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745532

I find the older comments really illustrate some of the cognitive dissonance Tether skeptics hold.

Keep doubling down I guess, might get lucky one day.

Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by microtherion on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:42PM (#23148749)
The problem with predicting Tether's imminent demise is, as the cliché goes, that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Like most cryptocurrency constructs, Tether is ridiculously shady, but that doesn't mean it's easy to predict when it will go out of business.