Tagged: tether

November 16, 2019 @ 4:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tether Inc, makers of a popular cryptocurrency that mimics USD (“tether” or USDt), has asked a judge in New York for permission to file a motion to dismiss a class-action suit filed against the company last month. The suit alleges that parties at Tether Inc and… Read More

November 8, 2019 @ 3:31 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tether Inc. is calling an academic paper claiming the company’s cryptocurrency tether (USDt) was used to induce the bitcoin bull run of 2017 “flawed” and “embarrassing.” The company is responding to an updated version of a 2018 paper by American finance professors John Griffin and… Read More

November 4, 2019 @ 4:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two scholars famous for alleging in 2018 that injections of Tether, a cryptocurrency and synthetic form of USD, were used to strategically to push up the price of Bitcoin to $20 000 USD have updated the report with a claim that those injections came mainly from… Read More

October 21, 2019 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange Bitfinex recently applied to a US court to subpoena a former senior banking official of a trust company that the exchange says could help it recover more than $850 million in frozen funds. On October 18, Bitfinex submitted a filing to a… Read More

October 16, 2019 @ 10:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two hundred-fifty investigators, thirty speakers gathering and other attendees at the OffshoreAlert Conference on financial intelligence and investigations in London November 11th and 12th will have a chance to examine the role tethers played in creating “the largest bubble in human history,” the Bitcoin/crypto bubble… Read More

October 7, 2019 @ 8:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Lawyers at Roche Freedman LLP filed a class action suit on October 6th against Bitfinex, Tether, and associated parties and firms. The suit alleges plaintiffs collectively suffered over $1.4 trillion USD in damages due to defendants alleged violation of Commodities Exchange and federal RICO statutes, as well… Read More

October 4, 2019 @ 2:38 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tether, a cryptographic proxy of USD created in 2014 to give liquidity in crypto markets, has now solidly surpassed Bitcoin as the most traded cryptocurrency in the world. According to the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), Tether first surpassed Bitcoin in daily trading volumes back in… Read More

October 3, 2019 @ 12:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked a New York judge to order crypto companies iFinex, Bitfinex and Tether to have records ready and on hand, if they lose their November 4th appeal: “(T)he OAG respectfully requests that this Court…(to) issue an order that… Read More

September 29, 2019 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

USD Coin (USDC) celebrated its first birthday this past week. As noted in a tweet, USDC is now the second most popular stablecoin following Tether. On September 26, 2018, Circle and the CENTRE open source consortium introduced USD Coin to enable individuals and institutions to… Read More

September 14, 2019 @ 6:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The unexplained recent migration of almost a billion USD-pegged tether cryptocoins to the Ethereum network has caused 100 000 transactions to get “stuck” in processing there, Trustnodes reports. (Graphic courtesy of Trustnodes) The controversial tether coins have been moving from their native OMNI network and other… Read More

September 10, 2019 @ 10:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

America and Asia’s two largest public-facing crypto trading platforms, Coinbase and Binance, also bear the most exposure to Tethers, a synthetic form of USDs introduced into crypto trading markets to give liquidity. This is the conclusion of CoinMetrics, a blockchain data analysis firm, which recently… Read More

September 9, 2019 @ 3:37 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Controversial stablecoin issuer Tether has launched its promised “CNHt” coin, which is designed to act as a cryptographic proxy of offshore Chinese yuan (CNH). The coin will run as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum network. Offshore Chinese yuan (CNH) added to our basket of… Read More

August 28, 2019 @ 8:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

The world’s second-largest cryptocurrency network after Bitcoin, Ethereum, is close to capacity as scaling solutions remain unrealized and other coins rent space on the chain. Ethereum came close to capacity once before, in 2017, when there was a brief craze for the “digital collectible” KryptoKitties…. Read More

August 24, 2019 @ 10:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

Tether traders are trading sentiment, but are they creating it? Crypto-sentiment analysis provider Augmento is claiming to have found a correlation between sentiment regarding the controversial USD-proxy cryptocoins Tethers, and sentiment expressed on Reddit, a social media platform favoured by crypto enthusiasts. According to the… Read More

August 23, 2019 @ 12:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptocurrency skeptics, in particular, these days are closely watching the showdown now underway between sister crypto companies Bitfinex and Tether and the New York Attorney General’s Office, which has alleged fraud at the two firms. As a bit of background, Tether makes a synthetic US… Read More

August 22, 2019 @ 1:36 am By Cali Haan  |  

Tether is continuing its bid to sell synthetic versions of world currencies by issuing yet another “stablecoin,” this time in the form of CNHT, which will act as a proxy for offshore Chinese yuan (CNH). Tether, its parent company iFinex and sister company, crypto exchange… Read More

August 21, 2019 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Wednesday it has formed a partnership with Tether, a stablecoin which pegs its value to the US dollar. Celsius Network reported that its mobile app will now support the USDT ERC20 stablecoin allowing USDT holders… Read More

August 20, 2019 @ 9:55 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A judge presiding over proceedings in a case of alleged fraud by crypto trading platform Bitfinex (and associated companies) has ordered the companies to provide records compelled under ex parte orders issued in New York in April. Almost immediately after the orders were issued, Bitfinex… Read More

August 19, 2019 @ 6:38 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Skeptical crypto-twitter commentators are throwing shade on the controversial stablecoin Tether, claiming a correlation between recently stable cryptocurrency prices and the cessation of “printing” at Tether, a company that has minted more than $4.15 billion synthetic USDs for the use in trading of cryptocurrencies. Self-declared… Read More

August 10, 2019 @ 4:12 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A cryptocurrency data research firm says that 80% of the world’s $4 billion USD supply of Tethers, a cryptographic/digital proxy of USD, is controlled by about 300 entities, Bloomberg reports. These “whales” all control more than $1 million USD in tethers each. By comparison, at… Read More