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Tether: A Stable Discussion

Crypto Critics' Corner

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Bitfinex and Tether - What's the Risk?

bitfinex was founded by raphael nicolas, a frenchman who was working as a helpdet technician. Up until this point, he was a major participant in and defender of the infamous trendon shavers pansey scheme which resulted in him losing a whole bunch of his bit coins. He used the recently leaked source code of a failed bitcoin exchange called becoinica. Beconica was an exchange that was popular because it offered leverage, allowing traders to magnify their gains but it had a variety of bugs and security sues. The code itself was written by a 17 year old in rubyon rails, and raphael basically took that code base, many of the bugs and

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