Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?

Re:Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? by Sophistifunk on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:37PM (#28794135)

Anybody "fined for selling counterfeit Microsoft software" almost certainly ran a whitebox computer shop, and was successful enough to get noticed and charged in a period where almost everybody's home computers ran pirated Windows and you could buy it on any street corner. In Italy to boot.

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Re:Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? by FormerBandmate on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:48PM (#28795177)

Yeah, it was common, but that doesn’t exactly help his case to regulate a currency taken as an equivalent of the US Dollar

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Re:Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? by dandanua on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:45AM (#28797063)

I think his experience fits nicely the job of running "counterfeit US Dollar"

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Re:Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? by Sophistifunk on Sunday October 10, 2021 @11:10PM (#28824235)

Not arguing that, just saying he probably did run a successful electronics business for some time.

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Re:Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? by scrubs on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:26PM (#28795028)

Bold! Bold pushback! To use a Fawlty Towers Basil line: "Sooo .... that's all sorted out" knowing full-well it isn't. Don't know Fawlty Towers? Let's go the Monthy Python direction:

JC: "It's not much of a bank."

MP: "Well, it's very clean, sir"

JC: "It's certainly uncontaminated by crypto-backed dollars."

Now I enjoy American TV too but I can't think of an All-in-the-Family, Nightcourt, or Scubbs scene here. But if you know the "aaaaannnnnnnd it's gone" ... line well you can riff from there.

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Re:Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? by bryanrasmussen on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:12AM (#28796539)

I was thinking more of the tethered https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/us-the-tethered-explained/

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