https://medium.com/coinmonks/untethered-tether-new-developments-f28c02ab5875The above thread reveals some rather interesting connections about tether (and new information that has come to light). Shared for the interest of those here who may wish to understand the conversation better.
At the end of the day the only people who know the full story are those who are running the show. This really highlights some of the potential issues that the unbridled and arbitrary increase in the money supply can yield. When push comes to shove, it reveals another purpose behind our strategy to not 'peak too early'. By the time DNotes becomes a pre-eminent / big time crypto, much of the schemes that bad actors have followed to wildly affected Bitcoin as the reserve currency will likely no longer be possible, because regulators and investors will become much more sophisticated in their monitoring of markets. Until that time, new industries prove a fertile ground for bad actors to collude at the expense of everyone else. We have seen this many times already with the number of exchanges that ran away with customer funds, or 'got hacked'.