If Tether dies, will Bitfinex go with it? and what about our $s?

[ricardobs]

We don't really know that yet, if tether we are not sure if it's going down with Bitfinex or not, but if you are worried about that then there are lots of other exchanges you can be making use of for now. I will advise you to take a quit from Bitfinex for now sk you don't take the risk. There are lots of other good exchanges one can rely on. So withdraw your money and switch to another good exchange and start trading with them while you wait. But it is likely that nothing is going to happen to Bitfinex if tether finally happens to go down after all these.

[Pipdips]

Thank you for bringing this topic to our attention thegoatiest. I always traded using USDT pairs. Today I switched it all over to USDC... so long old friend...

[Pipdips]

Here is fresh news

"Bitfinex Reveal Tether Is To Launch On EOS Blockchain"

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2019/06/bitfinex-tether-launch-eos-blockchain

[79b79aa8d5047da6d3XX]

I personally dont use bitfinex because i have little trust for them. I use binance because its reliable and the CEO is trustworthy.  Bitfinex has to build enough trust for people to trade freely with them. And of recent the news surrounding their Tether has not been encouraging

[Pipdips]

As much as I like trading at Binance every day, the possibility of losing my funds from a hack or something like that is just too much risk. I might stop trading and move all of my funds out of Binance and into a cold storage wallet.

Is FOREX safer?

[guoyu78]

This is why I avoid bitfinex exchange! This exchange, Tether USDT and the new the LEO coin, everything seems suspicious to me! To avoid the recent USDT pressure they asked crowdfunding! I don't know who invested there 1 Billion USD where this exchange is doing suspicious things and has a very low volume! However, it is good that people are moving forward to Binance, Binance is the exchange everyone should care!

Bitfinex is under great pressure from US policy and that is what makes this exchange so difficult to balance financial and Tether in the recent period of constantly having bad news that makes invester at this exchange there are many problems in withdrawing money. I think it's time for us to choose a better exchange because European related exchanges really put enormous pressure on investors and I personally will only choose the exchanges that are available at Asian.

When it comes to government involvement, we all know that we cannot fight government and whatever has to do with government and court case is also a slow one, which is how I believe this coin will start dyeingdown gradually.

Like you said, it is really high time most of its users quickly start looking for another better alternative to move their funds away from them before it becomes too late now, when they eventually collapse without announcing, by then, they will restrict available investors then from pulling their fund, although it will be impossible to do so now that government is involved in this one.

[beerlover]

I believe tether is already dead and I think bitfinex as well. You may see some people and some platforms still using tether but they are looking for a way out. Not that many stable tokens out there that is as good as tether on marketing so there is really not a single one that shines between all other alternatives but as soon as binance says they will be working with something there will be other places using the same and that one will kill tether very quickly.

Bitfinex may look like they still have some trading volume but that is purely because there are still people believing in the exchange and not tether, after tether dies there will still be some volume left but it will never be as good as it used to be and will never have the % of the volume they used to have.

[GregH37]

Prevention is better than cure mate, rather than disturbing yourself and cracking your brain in researching if they will have issue through their tether product, since the court case is not over yet, you would have just moved your funds to exchanges that you know is functioning perfectly well now and void of issues like this which I will like to recommend Binance.

People has really been expecting such challenge to befall them, and if not for the court case they have presently, I am sure many people would have changed their USDT back to bitcoin, but you know out of curiosity, we would like to know how their case will be judged, but while waiting, we can still move our fund to binance.

[Pipdips]

Prevention is better than cure mate, rather than disturbing yourself and cracking your brain in researching if they will have issue through their tether product, since the court case is not over yet, you would have just moved your funds to exchanges that you know is functioning perfectly well now and void of issues like this which I will like to recommend Binance.

My thoughts exactly. Just switch. The other day I converted all of my trading funds from USDT to USDC.

The pair BTC/USDC is great for my needs. USDC is lower volume but it works just the same. I use Binance.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

holy cow. Thanks for the information on that.
Off to Binance I go.             

Smart man.  Never used Bitfinex and probably never will, but I do use Binance and they are my preferred exchange.  I don't trade with fiat, so I've never had to deal with any of this Tether shit, and it sounds like it's becoming a real problem from what I've read recently.

Watched a video on Youtube recently about Tether and after I saw it, I'm pretty much convinced that it's useless.  There isn't and shouldn't be a need for a cryptocurrency pegged to any fiat currency.  Either use the fiat or don't.  Exchanges ought to be able to let you store your fiat and use it as you like without having to deal with something like Tether.

[sbogovac]

[...] I [...] use Binance and they are my preferred exchange.  I don't trade with fiat, so I've never had to deal with any of this Tether shit, and it sounds like it's becoming a real problem from what I've read recently.

Watched a video on Youtube recently about Tether and after I saw it, I'm pretty much convinced that it's useless.  There isn't and shouldn't be a need for a cryptocurrency pegged to any fiat currency.  Either use the fiat or don't.  Exchanges ought to be able to let you store your fiat and use it as you like without having to deal with something like Tether.

There's the whole problem, isn't it...? Binance doesn't let you use fiat... 

[leowonderful]

My thoughts exactly. Just switch. The other day I converted all of my trading funds from USDT to USDC.

The pair BTC/USDC is great for my needs. USDC is lower volume but it works just the same. I use Binance.

You can also just trade USDT/BTC on Binance and convert back over to USDC through the USDT/USDC pair if you don't like the lower volume on the USDC pair, though you will obviously pay fees by doing this and fees do stack up over time. I've been trading the USDC pair recently as well, and besides wicks going a little farther or shorter than on the USDT pair, things are about the same.

[Pipdips]

For the past few days I am trading BTC/USDC and it is working just as good.

Before when I used USDT as the quote I was all over the place using a couple dozen other base currencies in my Binance favorites.

[sana54210]

I believe tether is already dead and I think bitfinex as well. You may see some people and some platforms still using tether but they are looking for a way out. Not that many stable tokens out there that is as good as tether on marketing so there is really not a single one that shines between all other alternatives but as soon as binance says they will be working with something there will be other places using the same and that one will kill tether very quickly.

Bitfinex may look like they still have some trading volume but that is purely because there are still people believing in the exchange and not tether, after tether dies there will still be some volume left but it will never be as good as it used to be and will never have the % of the volume they used to have.

One thing you need to understand is that tether is a product and not the company itself, if the product dies, they have other products that will supplement it and continue building their growth, the only thing I see here is just that tether is the most popular of their product and it may just bring down their reputation temporarily.

If you look at it closely, prior to the invention of tether, they were fully doing fine and after tether they will still continue to do fine, provided the team are still active and able to come up with better ideas, which they would have already learnt from their mistake to, because I see what they did as a very big mistake.

[el kaka22]

I think whenever you have a feeling of "this may end up bad" you should always leave and never stay where you are. The question itself is moronic because if you feel like tether may end up bankrupt or whatever and then bitfinex going with it then why are you still there? I mean if this is a potential then just take your money out and use some other exchange?

Not like bitfinex has something superior to any exchange that you must stay, they are not providing anything that is better than all other exchanges, you can switch from bitfinex to binance and you would still be using a great exchange with much better trust.

So, if you think like this and tether is now hated by many people and they are literally losing support every single day, simply just withdraw your cash and leave.

[vennali]

I think if Tether dies, Bitfinex will go with it. They have a deep connection between each other and Tether had helped fund Bitfinex in the past. I had left the platform a long time ago when all the news about tether not being backed by USD started.

[FanEagle]

In my opinion, we need to focus on the tether outside of bitfinex as well. Look at exchanges that use tether they are everywhere and if tether goes then more places than just bitfinex will have problems. Binance uses tether as well (with other stablecoins too) which means there could be millions of dollars in binance that will just vanish as soon as tether goes bankrupt. That is why I think tether is a bigger problem to the crypto world in general then just a problem of bitfinex.

What would happen if 2 billion dollars of stablecoin suddenly goes out of market and everyone who held any tether will be screwed over including traders, holders AND exchanges which will make them basically go "hacked" or whatever and leave not paying anyone their money. I don't know what will happen exactly but the results will be catastrophical.

[dmty.0809]

If exchange bitfinex goes bankrupt, then all investor money will disappear, you better choose a sure and big exchange. Binance exchange is the main choice.

[sbogovac]

[...] What would happen if 2 billion dollars of stablecoin suddenly goes out of market and everyone who held any tether will be screwed over including traders, holders AND exchanges which will make them basically go "hacked" or whatever and leave not paying anyone their money. I don't know what will happen exactly but the results will be catastrophical.

Welcome to - basically - FIAT currency.

[Slow death]

As much as I like trading at Binance every day, the possibility of losing my funds from a hack or something like that is just too much risk. I might stop trading and move all of my funds out of Binance and into a cold storage wallet.

Is FOREX safer?

You should search on google, but be careful because the scammers are everywhere, and about binance ... well, what happened to binance can happen to any site

I think if Tether dies, Bitfinex will go with it.

I agree, but until now they are very strong, they will not be dropped so early.


Do not worry about USDT because nowadays there are many options, so USDT is not the only one on the market