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Tether CEO confirms major capital raise at a reported $500B valuation

3 points| arvindh-manian | 5 months ago |cnbc.com

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SilverElfin|5 months ago

I don’t know much about stable coins. How does tether make money?

wmf|5 months ago

Tether holds around $170B of US treasury bonds and receives interest on them which amounts to billions per year.

tencentshill|5 months ago

I assume they could lend their USD holdings out to a variety of shady entities, while being subject to no regulation, due to not being a bank.

mwkaufma|5 months ago

(Slaps hood) you won't believe how much paper-money we can shove into this bubble.