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by shkkmo 1484 days ago
Except that Tether has no legal requirement to allow you to redeem their coins, aren't 100% backed by USD, and has a history of lieing about their backing.
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Sure, they're unregulated with little or no oversight and could be spunking it all tropical islands, but that's the theory :)
That's the point of an algo stablecoin. I can see the code and have direct oversight.