Why “tether” is being discussed
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If USDT gets to a frozen list - that means that Tether does not need to comply with requests to convert it into USD? I guess this is very useful for Tether and the other stable…
by zby · Oct 30, 2026
The lession learned is: Tether now exists as a casino chip central bank. They can just freeze and print more and provide a backstop to the major CEXs. Of course, Tether runs com…
by Dagonfly · Oct 30, 2026
Tether isn’t decentralized or censorship free in any way
by dgellow · Oct 30, 2026
And yet people like the parent and those with billions invested in Tether seem to believe that it's all backed and fully solvent and minting new money from thin air is completel…
by grey-area · Oct 30, 2026
It’s been years since anything Tether minted was plausibly 100% backed by real assets. Both times they’ve been forced to show the books, they only had fractional backing. And th…
by Zanfa · Oct 30, 2026
So when tether is blacklisted, is it reissued?
by londons_explore · Oct 30, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "tether" over time.
Mentions
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A tether is a cord, fixture, or flexible attachment that characteristically anchors something movable to something fixed; it also may be used to connect two movable objects, such as an item being towed by its tow. Read more on Wikipedia