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how old is this quote? It’s 50 billion https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/.

It’s an incredibly shady coin. No doubt it was a lot of work by Coinbase to onboard it.

For stablecoins, I think normal people dont think thar much about the shadiness but more if it works or not. Tether has been keeping their stablecoin stable for 6+ years, for normal users it looks good for quite wide variery of uses. Of course no one is saving their pension in USDT but there are lots of shorter term use cases.

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