Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether, the $100 Billion stablecoin company that owns more U.S. Treasuries than most countries.

We explore why Tether is winning, how it’s helping people in emerging markets and what really backs a $USDT. We also cover the state of the stablecoin regulation and even market competitors.

Tether has been and it’s still a target of Fud in the Crypto industry. Paolo is here to refute that Fud and much more.

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00:00 Intro 6:52 Paolo Background 11:01 The History of Tether 15:40 USDT in Emerging Markets 25:30 Why not Bitcoin? 28:25 What’s Backing Tether? 42:25 Banking Risks 54:59 Tether Reserves Breakdown 59:39 Becoming Too Big 1:06:23 The Stablecoin Wars 1:11:18 Freezing Funds 1:13:45 USDT Competitors 1:16:59 Tokenized T-Bills 1:19:55 Tether on Tron 1:24:53 Regulation 1:26:14 The Value of Tether 1:29:10 Closing & Disclaimers

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Paolo Ardoino https://twitter.com/paoloardoino 

Tether Transparency Reports https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports  

Circle’s Caroline Hill on Congress https://twitter.com/Pledditor/status/1758243599446089799  

JPMorgan negative on Tether https://www.theblock.co/post/275643/jpmorgan-tether-negative-crypto  

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