Tether

includes Tether Gold, Tether USD

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 29, 2019 by Sep Kamvar · said 16 times in 5 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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brought up most by Balaji Srinivasan (7), Sep Kamvar (5), Ali Yahya (2), Paul Krugman (1), Nick Tomaino (1)

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Aug 29, 2019 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Kamvar: Tether users cannot inspect code to verify its operations
“Now, the drawback to Tether is that unlike the open source cryptocurrency that I described previously, it's, there's no way for a user of Tether to inspect the code to see that it is doing what it says it does.”
Sep Kamvar Aug 29, 2019 ▶ 5:24 Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
Aug 29, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kamvar: Tether maintained stability and pioneered fiat-backed stablecoins
“Now, despite that drawback, Tether has remained remarkably stable over the few years that it's been running, and it laid the intellectual foundation for a class of stable coins that I'll call fiat-backed stable coins.”
Sep Kamvar Aug 29, 2019 ▶ 5:50 Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yahya: Stablecoin regulation will commoditize Tether and USDC issuers
“It will, it'll, to some extent, commoditize the issuance layer because it'll be easier for new issuers To emerge and create their own stable coins that, that are also user, you USD denominated to the point that those new stable coins are somewhat fungible and …”
Ali Yahya Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 10:50 Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
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