I've been asked a couple of times how I was able to aggregate the daily #tether transparency pages so I thought I'd share the data.
Shared googlesheet >>> bit.ly/3iQ3W5U#OSINT
While you could scrape the html table direct from the transparency page its only provides the last 24hours.
Wayback machine captures the page multiple times per month. Use the IMPORTHTML function (USDT is "table 3") web.archive.org/web/2021011213…
Tether gold is "Table 6". As XAUT is reported in 'oz' and note $ and only issued on Eth. The empty columns have been removed and converted to US$m using daily #gold price from gold.org
@CasPiancey@BennettTomlin@ThinkPolOfficer As the week I was pulling the data was literally the same week that google began to shut down the service. Over time the profile images also disappeared as I had just used the image lines direct from the google+ account
@ebit4u Every country has a certain comparative advantage over others. This is what Cyprus does best so in acknowledgement that these start-ups have tiny tiny tiny micro lives they make sure there is high throughput, rapid turnover and tiny little fines when they get caught
@ebit4u kinda genius nurturing 10x the volume of startups, means 10x the licensing and end of life fines keeps the costs down ensuring they can be up and running quick as a flash.
@ebit4u Lets look at the #teman family as one that's managed to grow a couple of brands and while yes the copped a fine at the end of each run it was never such that it hurt their entrepreneurial spirit.
Following the release of #tether's distended testicle I mean attestation. I attempted to reconstruct some numbers....as mentioned only additional information I was able to yield was there was an additional $13m of undisclosed debt.
Armed with the donkey boys amazing double barrel pie chart I've added to the original analysis. The same doc previously shared which I'll share again at the end.
Ironically It's highly likely I've spent more hours on Tether's accounts in the last week than they have collectively in the last couple of years.
@haydentiff@NitrousDelivery@BennettTomlin So the fake unlicensed Gambian entity was the first Euro EXIM "group company" it would have been setup (and sold) as turn key "shelf company" - Gambian incorporated with banking license and #probanx banking software (more than half these fake Gambian companies
@haydentiff@NitrousDelivery@BennettTomlin So as you can see from the certificate the company was incorporated in Feb 2015 and the certificate showing the acquirers name is 8 May 2015. This date's important.
@FinTelegram In your #itradefx article I see you were able to confirm #pradexx as their payment processor. I looked at the sub-domain uiservices.pradexx.com checking its IP address 107.154.133.66 provides a pretty interesting list of other 'brands'
I'd been peripherally aware of @abt_company last year working on couple of M&A DD engagements....an OTC shell slipstreaming into the in vouge sector of the time....reeked of the standard P&D playbook.
By chance I stumbled across them today and had a flick through their business and numbers....I have to admit I was way off the mark; the recycling business far more underwhelming and the pump exponentially higher than than I could have imaged.
Hows this for snake oil salesman. The global market was worth $1B last year...we are building a plant 20% of the global market .....topline number is $200m pa ....and its gonna run for the next 50 years.