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legendary
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December 15, 2021, 04:57:42 PM
#29
USDT has lots of problem with everything, rumours everywhere that they can't be trusted but yet they are leading the top stable coin chart in the world today, I still use usdt to be honest because if the project is that bad they should be down already, another one is xrp that many hated for no reason or their centralised part until they start showing real usability, we just have to wait and see what will happen
If the community does not like a project you can be sure there is something wrong with it and eventually something could happen to it, and what better example than what happened to bitconnect, the community warned everyone that would listen that it was a scam but many people decide to ignore the warnings and think of them as unfounded, and then suddenly one day bitconnect crashed and it never recovered, USDT is not as bad as bitconnect was, but there are reasons to think it is not as good of a project as people think, and as such it is a good idea to stay away from it if you can.
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December 15, 2021, 12:22:35 PM
#28
USDT has lots of problem with everything, rumours everywhere that they can't be trusted but yet they are leading the top stable coin chart in the world today, I still use usdt to be honest because if the project is that bad they should be down already, another one is xrp that many hated for no reason or their centralised part until they start showing real usability, we just have to wait and see what will happen


I don't see usdt being in trouble at the moment, but what I do know is that usdt is always hit by bad news about PUD, so many crypto users doubt the potential of usdt, but if you research deeply then you will find out how big of a prospect the usdt has, evidence the most obvious thing is that until now usdt still survives and is the best stablecoin in crypto, I personally always use usdt as a medium of exchange and have never experienced any problems at all,
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December 15, 2021, 12:04:36 PM
#27
I think USDT is so much controversial in stable coin and large number of people don't trust this coin because of it’s past history (you know can be freeze at any moment) But it’s true that still this coin is most using in crypto trading. But long term holding might be risk, and big amount holders should pick others stable coin such as USDC is my favorite.
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December 15, 2021, 07:53:20 AM
#26
We've heard diverse opinions about the validity and reliability of USDT, but that doesn't change the fact that USDT is the best we've got. I understand that there may be some questionable trait as to whether USDT is backed with the dollar equivalent of the market capitalisation, but it's really not important to me. USDT has been serving its purpose in the cryptocurrency market for quite a while now and I don't see that ending soon.
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December 15, 2021, 07:33:48 AM
#25
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?

USDT is famous for printing money out of thin air. There's no way prove immediately all the red flags unless the law force them to submit a mandatory financial audit for every token they are printing. But they will not cheat blatantly considering how famous there token already and the amount of profit they are getting by just minting it. Imagine you are the owner of this stablecoin and you know that your product is the number one in the whole crypto market, Do you think you will destroy a long term profit in exchange to a quick bucks that full of risk from authority?
hero member
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December 15, 2021, 07:29:50 AM
#24
USDT has lots of problem with everything, rumours everywhere that they can't be trusted but yet they are leading the top stable coin chart in the world today, I still use usdt to be honest because if the project is that bad they should be down already, another one is xrp that many hated for no reason or their centralised part until they start showing real usability, we just have to wait and see what will happen
And I'm sure nothing bad will happen to USDT, so far the news about USDT has been circulating very widely but I see nothing bad for USDT as well as for XRP which continues to improve even though it has experienced very bad problems.
hero member
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December 15, 2021, 07:00:26 AM
#23
do not use usdt as long-term savings, if you have a large amount, study what alternatives there are and store them in them so it will be safer.The entire deposit in an ad asset is always a risk, divide it into 2-3 parts.This issue has been repeatedly discussed here on the forum.
member
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December 15, 2021, 04:29:17 AM
#22
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?
There's none. They are minting actually coins almost weeks actually and there no question about it. If ever Tether USDT becomes a disaster, then almost all of crypto market will collapse but I guess global community have to do something about it. We need a stablecoin which is backed by assets except USD. Like a golden standard made by The Standard protocol. You can generate an algorithmic stable coin by locking up your BTC, ETH and other coins that is allowed by The Standard dao. This is the solution of this USDT drama.
hero member
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December 15, 2021, 03:21:44 AM
#21
USDT is by far the most sketchy stablecoin out there. USDT currently has $76B in circulation and they claim it is backed 1 to 1 to USD, this would mean Tether has $76B cash reserves but it has never released an official audit.

Now the interesting or rather scary part is that every time there is a parabolic move by BTC, USDT issuance also goes parabolic, do they really have that much USD to back tether? Most likely no. USDT mimics USD and fiat's worst property i.e issuance out of thin air.

If and when this likely fraudulent company goes under, the biggest liquidity provider for the crypto market will cease to exist and the effects will be catastrophic. If anything we need to stop using USDT and move towards more transparent and decentralized stablecoins like DAI or UST (terra USD) or even USDC as a centralized stablecoin is a much better alternative than tether.
sr. member
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December 13, 2021, 01:50:26 AM
#20
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?

The safety of USDT is probably one of the most discussed topics within the whole cryptospace and in my opinion the doubts regarding USDTether are definitely justified. Back in 2019 they changed the official wording from "every USDT is backed by a real dollar" to "we have enough reserves to back every USDT minted. So no one really can validate what kind of reserves they are talking about and if they even exist. I personally switched to USDC a while ago.
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December 13, 2021, 01:05:39 AM
#19
USDT has lots of problem with everything, rumours everywhere that they can't be trusted but yet they are leading the top stable coin chart in the world today, I still use usdt to be honest because if the project is that bad they should be down already, another one is xrp that many hated for no reason or their centralised part until they start showing real usability, we just have to wait and see what will happen
legendary
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December 13, 2021, 12:45:49 AM
#18
~ is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?
You will just have to trust them on that and also the Government overseeing Tether.

I'm sure there are accounts in crypto twitter that follows the minting and burning of USDT from Tether treasury and post it. You can get notifications from them and get information almost instantly. Unfortunately, I forgot their handles.
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December 13, 2021, 12:44:56 AM
#17
It should have happened a long time ago. Because currently, the volume in USDT is very large every transaction. Just imagine, who is not tempted by that kind of money. Especially every year it continues to increase. On the other hand, I think USDT has a special system like a one-way algorithm that becomes a powerful code that can not be read by anyone including the USDT workers themselves.
full member
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December 13, 2021, 12:16:43 AM
#16
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?
USDT can be blocked anytime , i mean this can be chat or do anything against the users and supporters in which very risky for our funds.

this is what we can find in USDT so be aware of the possibilities guys when using USDT , try not to be comfortable and never rely big amount of your funds inside this stable coin.

I think in the following way that for people who have USDT on exchanges to make day trade in case of usdt there is any problem, the exchange will be responsible for changing usdt to another stable currency, I do day trade using usdt because I think that in case of any problem with usdt exchange will have to be responsible. I just don't advise people to buy usdt and keep it in their wallets, that's a big risk
that is the same way for me, buying USDT for short term only and never let funds stay longer on this risky currency .
hero member
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December 13, 2021, 12:01:10 AM
#15
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?

To be safe, all you need to do with the USDT is to temporarily convert some of your altcoins or bitcoin to it when the market is congested and after that, you can either convert it back or cash it out as soon as possible. But if you decide to hold it as if you don't think of the other way might happen, then that would be a major risk because USDT is not really decentralized like BTC. anytime it can be completely blocked by its owner and you don't have any idea how hard it to restore it or maybe you will lose your crypto assets forever.
hero member
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December 12, 2021, 11:11:11 PM
#14
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?
The main questions regarding USDT are wether it has declared collateral and how it releases new stablecoins. There were a lot of audits, but these questions are still unsolved. People continue using it, because it is the most convenient option. It is supported by all blockchains, most altcoins have pairs with it. Nevertheless, if you need to store your money in stable coins, you should pick up a basket a stable coins.
legendary
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December 12, 2021, 05:38:56 PM
#13
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
Im still trusting USDT and i have been using this for a few years. I have different opinion about that. Sometimes it has a bad and good side. I know that just because tether has ability to frozen the fund and it was not meant if it's a scam.
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?
That's a non sense think and why don't you think if all of stable coins have the same possibilities to become another scam project? Any projects have the same possibilities.  There's no way to find that and that's a big difficult. The only best thing if you're feeling doubt with it and don't use it. I think this is the best way to avoid it.
legendary
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December 12, 2021, 05:18:40 PM
#12
I think in the following way that for people who have USDT on exchanges to make day trade in case of usdt there is any problem, the exchange will be responsible for changing usdt to another stable currency, I do day trade using usdt because I think that in case of any problem with usdt exchange will have to be responsible. I just don't advise people to buy usdt and keep it in their wallets, that's a big risk
sr. member
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December 12, 2021, 05:13:07 PM
#11
This is a question i had for a long time,ive seen majority of traders buy and trade crypto through USDT,they just blindly trust it ,as its purpose is that of a stable coin ,i.e. basically a crypto replacement for USD($).
But what if the company behind USDT decides to cheat its holders,is there any way we can find out before a complete disaster? (for e.g. they start minting more coins unnecessarily)
is there any safety mechanism or a red flag indicator before its too late?
We may come to that risk but for many years it existed in crypto and even called stablecoins, I can't even think that way, it was just overly negatively speculated. Because if we all just to think like then, what else we can trust. Who would spend money and risk in crypto? Though we can assure that it was 100% safe, however, I would make myself think that USDT is a safe asset.

If you are doubted about crypto, for everything inside crypto, I guess you don't need to talk like that. As these people place their money in crypto at risk, they are also aware of the possible ends whether it was a bad or good end.
hero member
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December 12, 2021, 04:59:54 PM
#10
There's no way to know if a shitstorm is going to happen before you know it.

well, USDT is safe as whole crypto industry, if they go down, broader crypto industry will feel it certainly
with that said, I tend to have several stablecoins, that I put my money in, to diversify the risk

there is also DAI, as algorithmic coin, but also AMPL that should be connected to USD in 2019, but obviously have difficulties to hold peg, since there are +/-20+% fluctuations on price
I agree about DAI, it's a decentralized stable coin. It's a good alternative if someone doesn't like to use USDT.
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