Binance had two key advantages in 2020. First, Bitmex directors got indicted for money laundering. We were communication with a middle man for months trying to figure out why our Bitcoin was not being sent to us and all we got were excuses saying they were trying their best and that we were being rude. Type the amount to transfer and click on "Submit." Enable your 2FA authentication and follow the link in the email sent to confirm the transfer. EVICT were added in a soft fork, each member of the group could share a public key with the other members along with a signature for that key over an output paying the member the expected amount (e.g. 1 BTC for Alice, 2 BTC for Bob, etc). See Bitcoin mining and public key cryptography. There was a time in history when it was reasonable to mine bitcoin from your own home, but as the computational hardware requirements have grown, most people entering the space will typically join a mining pool, which is a group of miners pooling resources for greater efficiency. Following my piece on tether (USDT), some people have advanced that a similar stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC) is similarly shady.

So, you could sort of ask that people route through specific channels because that one is especially lopsided and it would move the liquidity more in the direction that would balance out the channel, which would be a good thing. The implied USDT peg also wobbled, though this may have happened before (causing liquidity firms to abruptly stop) or after (as a result of price spreads across exchanges). In my tether post I noted that crypto liquidity firms 1 all stopped at once on May 19th 2021. Within minutes, the price spreads between exchanges caused a flash crash. Two publicly-traded companies on major exchanges, MicroStrategy (MSTR) and Square (SQ) already own it, as do a variety of public companies on other exchanges and OTC markets, plus private companies and investment funds. Tether only allows redemptions from its "customers" - a dozen or so exchanges and large trading firms. Second, here’s Alameda trading claiming transactions to bitfinex were redemptions.

We know tether serves redemptions through sister company bitfinex. Hulquist says ransomware attacks, which essentially hold a company network "hostage" until the demanded ransom is paid, are nothing new. The four main features of the bitcoin network are a public transaction ledger (in fact a transaction log because it exhibits cryptographically enforced append only properties), a p2p network for p2p transactions and distributed management of the security of the transaction log, a novel inflation controlled whole network mining difficulty allowing the creation of virtual scarce bitcoins, and finally smart contracts. Maticz is the leading NFT Smart Contract Development Company expert in developing NFT Smart Contracts on various blockchain networks. The accountants just report what Circle (the company that owns USDC) told them. USDC planned to go public in mid-2021 through a SPAC. The bottom two rows are where redeemed USDT and USDC come from. Satoshi's anonymity often raised unjustified concerns, many of which are linked to misunderstanding of the open-source nature of Bitcoin. One way to think about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies more broadly is that they are emerging as a new asset class. So, this could sound like, I guess from a priority perspective, I don’t think it’s quite there.

We also know tether commingled funds with bitfinex in the past 3. It’s entirely possible tether pays redemptions with bitfinex customer funds. It’s possible FTX, who also offer ridiculously leveraged futures contracts, take up the "leveraged garbage" torch from Binance, who took it from Bitmex - but it’s not seen in the data at the moment. We have seen President Erdogan urge Turks to turn in dollars and gold for local liras, as an expression of patriotism. On the other hand, USDC seems to have a more consistent redemption pattern. This pattern fits with a competing theory to the "Tether Ponzi Scheme" idea: USDT used in Chinese capital control evasion. The Chinese government limits capital outflows to $50,000 per year. Chinese Capital Control Evasion? As put in USDC’s pitch deck risk section: "Our products may be used to facilitate fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and scams". A complex business model like "someone gives you a dollar and you put it in a bank account" is expensive to run6. The cynic’s answer is simply that tether can’t handle any significant volume of redemption without collapsing and closely tied players like Binance’s existence is tied to tether, https://youtu.be/SL2Osmc8nQ4 so they do whatever they can not to redeem.