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Author Topic: [2018-10-15] Bitcoin Price Explodes to $7,500 as Tether Loses USD Peg  (Read 314 times)
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October 18, 2018, 06:46:53 AM
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For people who don't care and have no interest in decentralization and are only in the market for a profit. The banking industry has also few points of failure and it resulted as you describe a massive lost (crash 1919-2008, money devalued in countries,...) It's not a problem for the people I was referring to, at least they will still own a digital currency

It's okay if they understand the risk, but the bigger problem is that stablecoins are painted as some sort of improvement over traditional cryptocurrencies, and that people should be using them as a currency because of their stability, as they suffer less from volatility than traditional cryptos. This is really bad, because stablecoins reject the core value of Bitcoin/any true cryptocurrency - no central point of failure.
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October 18, 2018, 11:50:34 AM
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Thanks for the great links, @1Referee and @figmentofmyass! After reading from them and some more I think I can try to summarize the obtained information.

Anyone can deposit both USD and USDT on Bitfinex. However only fully KYC-verified users can withdraw USD. Other, non-verified, users can only withdraw USDT, say to Kraken, exchange it for USD there and then wire to any account they want. Since many users are not verified, this situation contributes to the creation of the huge “trading” volume of the USDT/USD pair, while, in fact, there is no actual trading. Anytime someone withdraws USD from Bitfinex they “trade” it for USDT first and then withdraw. On top of all of this, if someone deposits USDT on Bitfinex it is automatically “traded” for USD and the person in question has USD on their account, which also contributes to the  USDT/USD “trading” volume.

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