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Story: Tether (USDT) Totally Irrelevant to Bitcoin Market Per Michael Saylor

By James Thorp

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Tether (USDT) Believers

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USDT from Tether is a dominant stablecoin.  Almost, every digital currency that has a market value is paired with it in the exchanges.

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It was not uncommon to see an increased number of transactions taking place for the ERC20 standard based Tether.

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Despite the numbers of transactions of TRON being higher than ERC20, whether by virtue of being the first comer for USDT, ERC20 USDTs is still twice more valuable when it comes…

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There is a widespread belief that Tether is moving the market for Bitcoin; however, Michael Saylor, the CEO of Microstrategy maintained his belief towards Bitcoin and stated,…

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Micheal Saylor pointed to how he purchased his Bitcoin by simply sending cash to a regulated exchange. After that he sent the BTC straight to the cold storage.

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Corporate investors have hoards of hot cash and they buy Bitcoin with no problem.  All they need to do is to pay and buy Bitcoin. 

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Stablecoins become important for exchanges to provide for offshore settlements.

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Also, it is important to recollect the sworn affidavit from Tether that at best each USDT is backed at a rate of 74%, and not even necessarily by pure U.S. dollars!

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However, many of them strongly believe that shutting down Tether will have a disastrous effect on the entire cryptocurrency market, which obviously is an over broad idea.

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