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by dgellow 1943 days ago
This article doesn't make that much sense IMHO. You can read the settlement agreement for yourself here: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

Page 4 of the agreement:

> 20. Because of Tether’s inability to conduct significant banking activity during this time, it could not itself hold dollars sufficient to back the hundreds of millions of new tethers that had entered the market. Until September 15, 2017, the only U.S. dollars held by Tether ostensibly backing the approximately 442 million tethers in circulation was the approximately $61 million on deposit at the Bank of Montreal.

That's 14% of the cash required to back the issued Tether at the time.