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amycastor-com-7660		The DOJ’s criminal probe into Tether — What we know – Amy Castor			.html	text/html	1906	159	75	RT @davidgerard: News: the Senate hates Bitcoin, Tether and USDC attestations, DeFi Money Market and Poloniex settle with SEC, Poly Network… 1 day ago Tether responded to the latest bit of news in typical fashion — with a blog post accusing Bloomberg of spreading FUD and trying to "generate clicks." After a user placed a large number of buy orders for bitcoin perpetual futures denominated in tethers (USDT) on Binance — an unregulated exchange struggling with its own banking issues — The BTC/USDT perpetual contract hit a high of $48,168 at around 01:00 UTC on the exchange. It is likely a follow-up to the New York attorney general's probe into Tether — and its sister company crypto exchange Bitfinex — which started in 2018. Since then, Tether and Bitfinex have had to rely increasingly on shadow banks — such as Crypto Capital, a payment processor in Panama — to shuffle funds around the globe for them.	./cache/amycastor-com-7660.html	./txt/amycastor-com-7660.txt