Post
Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Do you trust USDT?
by
Fortify
on 22/04/2021, 19:20:00 UTC
USD Tether is a Bitfinex issued ERC-20 token which is claimed to be backed by dollar at 1:1 ratio. There are controversial opinions about this and some say it's a scam.

Do you trust USDT or believe it might be a scam?

Is it just me or is the very idea of a USDT "stablecoin" rather pointless? I can see in theory it has some use, but in practice it is essentially just replicating a payment network like Mastercard/Visa/American Express, but with less security because it is decentralized and held on all sorts of vulnerable devices. If somebody struggles with the means to open a bank account because they are less technically minded, then chances are they will have even more trouble securing a cryptocurrency wallet like this. It's not necessarily a scam, it just recreates the wheel really - the whole banking system is already doing this job and probably a lot more efficiently because of decades of experience.