• dhork@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    They’re not a bank, though. Banks are regulated in terms of what assets they keep, and where. We only have Tether’s word.

    https://tether.to/en/transparency/?tab=reports

    They claim that 84% of their reserves are held as cash or cash equivalent, with 81% of that in US Treasury notes. Then why do they use some obscure Italian accountant to attest to that? They ought to be able to get a big name firm to attest to having $100 billion in US treasuries.

    They also claim to hold 5% of their reserves in Bitcoin, which is 5% too much.