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What are the lies that we know to be lies?

ceejayoz 4y ago
As far back as 2015, their website claimed "frequent professional audits" (https://archive.ph/mVPmL https://archive.ph/mVPmL). To date, no audit has been completed; after years of falsely representing attestations as audits (despite those documents openly stating they weren't audits), they finally removed the claim. Similarily, their website lied for years about 1:1 USD backing in their accounts, and they faked it by moving money that wasn't theirs (likely Bitfinex customer holdings) in and out of their accounts. https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-ends-virtual-currency-trading-platform-bitfinexs-illegal https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-... > The OAG’s investigation found that, starting no later than mid-2017, Tether had no access to banking, anywhere in the world, and so for periods of time held no reserves to back tethers in circulation at the rate of one dollar for every tether, contrary to its representations. In the face of persistent questions about whether the company actually held sufficient funds, Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’ > On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.
davidgerard 4y ago
The master documents for this are the NY and CFTC settlements: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlement_agreement_-_execution_version.b-t_signed-c2_oag_signed.pdf https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen... https://www.cftc.gov/media/6646/enftetherholdingsorder101521/download https://www.cftc.gov/media/6646/enftetherholdingsorder101521... (both PDF) the incompetence (as well as the lies) is just amazing

As far back as 2015, their website claimed "frequent professional audits" (https://archive.ph/mVPmL https://archive.ph/mVPmL). To date, no audit has been completed; after years of falsely representing attestations as audits (despite those documents openly stating they weren't audits), they finally removed the claim. Similarily, their website lied for years about 1:1 USD backing in their accounts, and they faked it by moving money that wasn't theirs (likely Bitfinex customer holdings) in and out of their accounts. https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-ends-virtual-currency-trading-platform-bitfinexs-illegal https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-... > The OAG’s investigation found that, starting no later than mid-2017, Tether had no access to banking, anywhere in the world, and so for periods of time held no reserves to back tethers in circulation at the rate of one dollar for every tether, contrary to its representations. In the face of persistent questions about whether the company actually held sufficient funds, Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’ > On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.

davidgerard 4y ago

The master documents for this are the NY and CFTC settlements: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlement_agreement_-_execution_version.b-t_signed-c2_oag_signed.pdf https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen... https://www.cftc.gov/media/6646/enftetherholdingsorder101521/download https://www.cftc.gov/media/6646/enftetherholdingsorder101521... (both PDF) the incompetence (as well as the lies) is just amazing