For the first time, Tether holders are actually redeeming Tether for actual $$$. Tether has fallen 9% in market cap over the last 4 days. $6.5 billion dollars have been pulled out in a controlled way, in fractions every 12-24 hours. The question is when Tether runs out of actual $$$. If it is after like ~$20 billion withdrawn, we are looking at losses of ~$50 billion. And it could take Bitcoin with it.

[edit] $8 billion down now.

  • OrthoMarxist [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It could be that they're selling their reserves (Other crypto, random IOUs) to buy tether with to keep the peg and now adjusting their "market cap" to match the lost collateral.