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Re:The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine by Animats on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:02PM (#25793087)
Today, January 15th is the court-ordered disclosure date for Tether. So soon we should know how big the Tether bubble is.

Clearly, it's time to get out of USDT. There's no upside potential, and there's a big downside potential.

Re:The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine by soneca on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:17PM (#25793303)
But there will be no news for some time until the attorney general’s office review all the delivered documents right? Or should there be relevant news in the next few days already?
Re:The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine by dgellow on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:16PM (#25795773)
We don’t know yet
Re:The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine by Tsotsi on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:01AM (#25810683)
I thought the same, then realised Courts move very slowly. May be months before we have any reaction or statement.

What IS fascinating and will be very telling is to closely watch Tether issue from ‘Treasury’. Seems they have stopped as they KNOW what is in the millions of pages they delivered to AG and from now on need to be much more careful. If Tether issuance decreases, crypto prices should fall. Must also watch Tether volume per day.

Two scenarios:

1. Tether decides to go legit: mild short term crypto price fall. Tether actually has an independent audit as much promised. Audit reveals not good, but not catastrophic.

2. Tether execs have decided to delay / obfuscate and exit when forced: continued fraudulent Tether issue and price bubble accelerates.

Something is already up: BTC price rocketed every holiday and long weekend recently. This one it is falling = no support from Tether printing?