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> They claim that 100% of the assets are backed by US dollar cash deposits.

Still? (ie link?)

All I see is: “All Tether tokens are pegged at 1-to-1 with a matching fiat currency and are backed 100% by Tether's reserves.” (link here: https://tether.to/en/transparency/)

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Yeah, they continuously try to rewrite history. The original whitepaper directly stated "Each tether issued into circulation will be backed in a one to one ratio with the equivalent amount of corresponding fiat currency held in reserves by Hong Kong based Tether Limited."

For further reading, see the CFTC settlement

The fact that this comment is downvoted means that at least some people here doesn’t understand how to use the downvoting function. I think the comment highly contributed to the discussion by pointing out what Tether states today (and asking for more information if available). How is this not a constructive comment?

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