Tagged: tether

August 1, 2019 @ 2:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

An unnamed OTC trading desk in Moscow is selling up to $30 million USD in “tethers” per day to Chinese merchants sending proceeds home, Coindesk reports. Until 2018, the favoured currency for this type of transacting was reportedly Bitcoin, but Chinese merchants have lately started dumping… Read More

July 31, 2019 @ 11:18 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Lawyers for the crypto exchange Bitfinex (and associated companies iFinex and Tether) have sent a letter to the judge presiding over anti-fraud proceedings against them in New York threatening to appeal if the judge does not dismiss the case against them. The letter from Bitfinex… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 11:32 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tenacious and liquid crypto exchange Bitfinex and affiliate companies had hoped that a fraud case brought against them by the New York Attorney General (NYAG) would be wrapped up this week. Instead, a formerly sympathetic judge has granted an extension, The Block reports. Bitfinex, iFinex, and… Read More

July 23, 2019 @ 7:30 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitfinex, iFinex, and Tether, cryptocurrency companies defending themselves against fraud allegations in New York, are claiming that the New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has failed to substantiate claims the companies facilitated trades for New York residents without being licensed to do so…. Read More

July 11, 2019 @ 11:25 am By Cali Haan  |  

IDEX, a “DEX” (decentralized exchange) registered in Panama and billing itself on Twitter as the “Number 1 Hybrid DEX on Ethereum,” has announced it is delisting LEO, a controversial exchange token created by Bitfinex. Bitfinex, it’s parent company iFinex and fellow subsidiary company Tether have… Read More

July 10, 2019 @ 1:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Attorney General of New York (NYAG) has submitted a memorandum in court documenting iFinex/Bitfinex/Tether’s “extensive ties to New York” and disputing the Seychelles-registered companies’ claims that New York authorities have no jurisdiction and that its fraud investigation is impeding business. iFinex and subsidiaries Tether… Read More

July 5, 2019 @ 10:02 am By Cali Haan  |  

Jessie Powell, the CEO of the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken told TD Ameritraid Monday that real money pouring onto crypto exchanges fuelled Bitcoin’s recent price rise, not controversial synthetic USDs called tethers. Tether printing comes after fiat and not before, said Powell: “Recently,… Read More

June 30, 2019 @ 1:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Blockdata, a 2018-founded company maintaining a database of “objective information about the companies, projects, products, and tokens that comprise the blockchain ecosystem,” has produced an interesting report about stablecoins called “An overview of the current state of stablecoins.” Blockdata found that so far, at least… Read More

June 15, 2019 @ 10:48 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency trading platform and sister company to stable coin-issuer Tether, announced June 14th that buybacks of its LEO token, issued to help cover operational shortfalls, have begun. LEO token bought back are purportedly being “burned” (decommissioned) by the issuer. About a billion tokens… Read More

June 1, 2019 @ 8:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

Tethers, controversial “stable” crypto-coins created to allow quick moves in and out of cryptocurrency trading positions are being introduced onto the EOS network, a newer rival of the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks. Tethers are issued by the Tether company, which announced the plan May 31st… Read More

May 23, 2019 @ 4:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Matt Branton, CTO of Neutral and architect of Neutral Dollar – an aspiring stablecoin, has slammed stablecoin leader Tether in a statement. Neutral Dollar (NASD) is a stablecoin pegged to a basket of four other stablecoins (USDC, PAX, DAI, TUSD) which just recently went live…. Read More

May 23, 2019 @ 8:26 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency trading platform dogged for years by controversy, is launching a platform for the issuing of IEOs (initial exchange offerings). IEOs are essentially a revamped version of the ICO (initial coin offering) except that rather than being sold directly to investors by issuers… Read More

May 10, 2019 @ 8:20 am By Cali Haan  |  

Chinese OTC Bitcoin trader Dong Zhao has once again taken to Chinese mega social platform WeChat to talk up an IEO (initial exchange offering) being issued by Bitfinex, the troubled cryptocurrency exchange in which Zhao reportedly holds equity, Coindesk reports. Bitfinex is owned by iFinex,… Read More

May 7, 2019 @ 7:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

iFinex, parent company of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange and creator of Tether, the world’s most popular “stablecoin” cryptocurrency, has asked a court in New York to “vacate” (render void) ex parte orders issued by the Attorney General of New York compelling iFinex to produce comprehensive… Read More

May 5, 2019 @ 8:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Controversial cryptocurrency company iFinex, operator of several crypto exchanges and the issuer of billion-dollar “stablecoin,” Tether, has issued a “marketing document” outlining its plans to create a new IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) token, LEO, that the company may use to cover operating expenses and hypothetically… Read More

May 2, 2019 @ 4:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

TrustToken, a stablecoin issuer building a portfolio of fiat backed crypto, has commented on the Bitfinex and Tether news pertaining to the lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General alleging fraud. TrustToken threw shade at the targets of the lawsuit saying the news did… Read More

May 2, 2019 @ 7:41 am By Cali Haan  |  

A lawyer for iFinex, the company behind the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange and”stablecoin” Tether (USDT), has admitted in an affidavit that the company only has enough cash on hand to cover 74% of the tethers it has issued into cryptocurrency trading markets. In the affidavit, “Stuart… Read More

May 1, 2019 @ 6:54 pm By Cali Haan  |  

“Processed hundreds of millions of dollars of unregulated transactions on behalf of numerous cryptocurrency exchanges.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested American citizen Reginald Fowler, 60. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged him with bank fraud, conspiracy… Read More

May 1, 2019 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

The crypto world is still regrouping from the reality that Bitfinex/Tether is being pursued by a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Stablecoin Tether, operated by the owners of Bitfinex, is a big part of the fraud allegations leveled by the state…. Read More

April 29, 2019 @ 2:38 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Researchers at LongHash, “a global blockchain incubator supported by the Singapore government,” have concluded that surging stablecoin trading volumes corresponded with a sudden 15% increase in the price of Bitcoins on April 2nd of this year. On that day, the price of one bitcoin, which… Read More