Tether Creates 300 Million New Tokens, Bitcoin Price Rises

If all is as the company says, the creation of 300 mln new Tether tokens indicates that a massive amount of new money has entered the crypto ecosystem.

Thu, 22/03/2018 - 0:05

Tether Creates 300 Million New Tokens, Bitcoin Price Rises

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Yesterday, 300 mln new Tether tokens were created and the price of Bitcoin posted an increase, though not a huge one. Tether is a controversial altcoin that is supposed to be backed by actual US dollars in the Tether company’s bank account. As yet, no audit on the company has been completed, though one was promised last year. If everything is as the Tether company says, then the new tokens would have been purchased with $300 mln in US dollars - which is effectively new money coming into the crypto markets. Such a large influx of money into the marketplace would be expected to boost the price of Bitcoin, and it appears to have done just that.

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David Dinkins

David Dinkins is a freelance writer who holds a Master of Arts in history from Louisiana Tech University and has extensive teaching experience both at LSU – Shreveport and University of Phoenix. He got involved with cryptocurrency in early 2014 working as part of the Dash Core Team and have served in the role of writer/editor (mostly editor) during that time. He has edited a huge number of documents for the Core Team, including the Evolution whitepaper, the PrivateSend whitepaper, and many of Evan Duffield’s communications with the Dash Community.