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Bitcoins and Blockchains: Cryptocurrency Explained

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The Risks of Buying Tethers

Tether is used by a lot of offshore exchanges in the decentralized finance world, where it's really being used as a proxy for the US dollar. It sounds very meta and multifaceted getting into the different levels. Facebook proposed to have a sort of Facebook based money used by maybe two billion people in the world. They said they were going to do it in 2020 then they said it'd be 2021.

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