@bitcoinlawyer@Tether_to Clearly Tether Limited is registered with FINCEN as a MSB anyone can search and confirm. Putting aside the registered vs regulated debate. Is it not misleading to suggest that @Tether_to is regulated?
@bitcoinlawyer@Tether_to Tether states that since Jan 2018 it no longer serving the US market, and pursuant TOS "tether limited" is ringfenced specifically to US customers, of which there are none.
@bitcoinlawyer@Tether_to since Tether Limited doesn't transaction with customers; all customers fall under the umbrella of the BVI entity Tether International Limited which is NOT registered/regulated by FINCEN.
@bitcoinlawyer@Tether_to If 100% of @Tether_to business operates and is governed by TIL then 1) @Tether_to is NOT regulated 2) why go to the effort of registering an entity that essentially has no business to regulate/register? Its not hard to see why there are questions as to transparency
Here's a question to all my #twitter peeps.... but some background first.
One of the first things you learn in M&A 101 is that the primary benefit of a share sale vs an asset sale is that an asset sale you get to leave behind liabilities and any potential unknown skeletons...
Now this is not true in all cases for example in Europe (my specific experience is Germany) if you acquire a going concern via asset sale employee obligations are carried over (that the simple version its way more onnerous).
But my question relates to what about when a company acquires an asset that's subsequent to acquisition its discovered that asset was previously used for the carriage of illegal activity. Say for instance a domain. What responsibility other than the obvious reputational risk.
Tomorrow I'll walk through my calculations as to how #tether was able to increase their reserves by $700m and then spruce it as a profit.
Until then here's a couple of points to ponder. 1. #nontokendebt - This is something I've broken out in every analysis I've done on Tether's attestations.
Its literally the most important in their numbers.
I've been tracking #tether's attestations since they started publishing them.
I'd like to think that I provide more granular reporting then they do themselves.
I generally try to update the shared sheets and provide some commentary with a week or so of the attestations being released. I haven't had the chance to this quarter...as well I've had real world shit to do ....
I was kinda champing at the bit to write up a few tweet storms as all the fanboys were shilling the amazing $700m profit #tether had made in the Dec quarter alone....