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by gadnuk 1104 days ago
> In one instance, the Binance chief compliance officer messaged a colleague that, “[w]e are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro.”

Source: https://twitter.com/JohnReedStark/status/1665748594421297152

Is there any player in this space that plays by the rules? CZ going the way of SBF. Tether next?

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This is such a great quote that the SEC made it up as a slide to accompany the announcement of the charges on Twitter. Many crypto enthusiasts considered the SEC's communication style most inappropriate XD

https://twitter.com/SECGov/status/1665779371108335618

If you played by the rules, you would have already lost out to the cheaters.
Yep, this is the story of Gemini.
They were/are a Tether exchange, right?
No, they use real USD.
Tether /is/ the main (fraudulent) player
Interesting that Tether and BitFinex have always been the worst and most corrupt, and are somehow last in line...
well, you can end up too big to fail...until it all fails...