Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt

https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1983455972636111011

#HackerNews #Tether #USDebt #CryptoFinance #MarketTrends #EconomicNews

guess who’s been buying up #argentina's beef feedstock producers (hint: it’s howard lutnick's #stablecoin company #Tether)

* video of trump: https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1980459802632548586
* more on lutnick + argentina: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/make-argentina-gold-again

#adecoagro #javierMilei #uspol #beef #uspoltiics #agriculture #howardlutnick

guess who’s been buying up #argentina's beef feedstock producers (hint: it’s howard lutnick's #stablecoin company #Tether)

* video of trump: https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1980459802632548586
* more on lutnick + argentina: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/make-argentina-gold-again

#adecoagro #javierMilei #uspol #beef #uspoltiics #agriculture #howardlutnick

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The Pattern: (Privatised gains, socialised losses = austerity)

Here's what this looks like:

Step 1: Create Dependencies
#Tether becomes critical to Argentina's economy
Tether invests heavily in Argentine companies
Argentine economy dependent on crypto functioning

Step 2: Create Crisis
Milei's LIBRA scandal undermines confidence
Argentine peso under pressure
Tether needs to raise money (why?)

Step 3: Create Solution
US announces $20B bailout using obscure fund
Bypasses normal safeguards (IMF, Fed)
Tether announces $20B fundraising same day
Secrecy prevents scrutiny

Step 4: Profit
Bailout stabilizes Argentina
Benefits Tether's investments
Benefits Lutnick (manages Tether's money)
Benefits crypto industry (prevents collapse)
Taxpayers take the risk

Classic privatize gains, socialize losses.

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The Questions Nobody's Asking
Why bypass the #IMF entirely? The IMF exists for this. Why go alone?

Why is Treasury doing this instead of the Fed? Swaplines are the Fed's job. This is highly unusual.

Why these exact amounts at this exact time? $20B bailout, $20B #Tether

..and satellites? and ...What does a stablecoin company with <100 employees need with 70% of an agricultural company?

The NYT asked exactly ZERO of these questions.

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Why Argentina Needs Tether
Here's context the Times missed:

Tether's USDT stablecoin is EXTREMELY popular in Argentina because:

Crushing inflation: "Low" inflation = pesos lose 1/3 of value yearly. "High" inflation = 3/4 of value yearly.

Capital controls: Until recently, Argentines couldn't legally buy dollars. USDT became the workaround.

It's their bank: Many Argentines use USDT as their primary "bank account" to escape peso devaluation.

The hostage situation:

If Tether collapsed, Argentina's economy would face severe disruption

Any hint Tether can't redeem its 173 billion tokens would trigger mass panic

Argentina is now dependent on Tether functioning
This makes Tether "too big to fail" for Argentina specifically.

And guess what? A $20B US bailout that stabilizes #Argentina also stabilizes #Tether critical market.

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➤ Making Argentina Great Again

it is incredibly suspicious to me that the US Treasury fund #Bessent wants to use to bail out #Argentina and Javier #Milei is almost exactly the same size as the amount of money #Tether is suddenly trying to raise via a “private placement”.

Tether is one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world, at least according to their own unaudited / unverified numbers. There should be no reason for them to need to raise capital and no desire on their part to sell off part of their cash cow.

Puting aside for a moment the absurdity of the idea that the central bank of international criminal finance considers itself to be in the same league as companies like Google, Nvidia, and Tesla, I can think of 3 possible explanations:

1. Tether is (somehow) out of cash. This is lent some credence by the fact that they are failing to pay their electricity bill in #Uruguay and had their power turned off a few weeks ago.

2. Tether wants to get some shares into the hands of corrupt government officials (other than Howard “Nutlick” #Lutnick, who already has some) for protection.

3. Now that the #Fed has pivoted and cut rates Tether’s income is about to start dropping (and the more the fed cuts, the more it will drop) so they are just cashing out the founders at the top. This is the most charitable interpretation.

it’s also worth mentioning that:

1. Tether’s #USDT token is very popular with #Argentinians trying to avoid that country’s hyperinflation. While technically illegal because of capital controls, it’s still a “crime” I have some sympathy for. But it does mean there’s an important connection between Tether and Argentina.

2. Tether is a major shareholder in south american agriculture business #Adecoagro which does a lot of work in Argentina.

more on Tether: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered

#uspol #MAGA #uspolitics #ScottBessent #treasury #finance #economics #bailout #IMF #WEF #WorldBank #howardLutnick #stablecoins

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➤ Making Argentina Great Again

it is incredibly suspicious to me that the US Treasury fund #Bessent wants to use to bail out #Argentina and Javier #Milei is almost exactly the same size as the amount of money #Tether is suddenly trying to raise via a “private placement”.

Tether is one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world, at least according to their own unaudited / unverified numbers. There should be no reason for them to need to raise capital and no desire on their part to sell off part of their cash cow.

Puting aside for a moment the absurdity of the idea that the central bank of international criminal finance considers itself to be in the same league as companies like Google, Nvidia, and Tesla, I can think of 3 possible explanations:

1. Tether is (somehow) out of cash. This is lent some credence by the fact that they are failing to pay their electricity bill in #Uruguay and had their power turned off a few weeks ago.

2. Tether wants to get some shares into the hands of corrupt government officials (other than Howard “Nutlick” #Lutnick, who already has some) for protection.

3. Now that the #Fed has pivoted and cut rates Tether’s income is about to start dropping (and the more the fed cuts, the more it will drop) so they are just cashing out the founders at the top. This is the most charitable interpretation.

it’s also worth mentioning that:

1. Tether’s #USDT token is very popular with #Argentinians trying to avoid that country’s hyperinflation. While technically illegal because of capital controls, it’s still a “crime” I have some sympathy for. But it does mean there’s an important connection between Tether and Argentina.

2. Tether is a major shareholder in south american agriculture business #Adecoagro which does a lot of work in Argentina.

more on Tether: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered

#uspol #MAGA #uspolitics #ScottBessent #treasury #finance #economics #bailout #IMF #WEF #WorldBank #howardLutnick #stablecoins

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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Iran vs. Israel... On the Blockchain

The cease fire between Israel and Iran does not appear to apply to cyber warfare. #Tether and other #stablecoin companies have been seizing a lot of Iranians' assets.

(RTs appreciated)
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/israel-vs-iran-on-the-blockchain

#iran #israel#HowardLutnick #economics #netanyahu #gaza #uspol #uspolitics#MiddleEastCrisis#Nobitex#Citex#IRGC

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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Iran vs. Israel... On the Blockchain

The cease fire between Israel and Iran does not appear to apply to cyber warfare. #Tether and other #stablecoin companies have been seizing a lot of Iranians' assets.

(RTs appreciated)
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/israel-vs-iran-on-the-blockchain

#iran #israel#HowardLutnick #economics #netanyahu #gaza #uspol #uspolitics#MiddleEastCrisis#Nobitex#Citex#IRGC

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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Arrest Shook The Blockchain

Jeffrey Epstein's arrest seems to have set off a wave of suspicious crypto payments that have heretofore gone unexamined.

1. The 2nd highest volume day in bitcoin history came a week after Epstein died.

2. #Stablecoin transfer volumes doubled less than 48 hours after Epstein was arrested. In particular #Tether, the stablecoin whose money is managed by Epstein's next door neighbor and #Trump's current Secretary of Commerce, saw on chain volumes skyrocket.

Also there's the matter of a bunch of suspicious deaths among Epstein's crypto circle.

(RTs appreciated)
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/epsteins-arrest-shook-the-blockchain

#epsteinfiles #epstein #epsteinCoverup #uspol#SaudiArabia #israel#EhudBarak #uspolitics#JeffreyEpstein #crime#corruption #moneylaundering #bitcoin #crypto #blockchain#FSB#Russia #putin#vladimirPutin #cryptocurrency#BTC #tether#USDT#JustinSun

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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Epstein's Arrest Shook The Blockchain

Jeffrey Epstein's arrest seems to have set off a wave of suspicious crypto payments that have heretofore gone unexamined.

1. The 2nd highest volume day in bitcoin history came a week after Epstein died.

2. #Stablecoin transfer volumes doubled less than 48 hours after Epstein was arrested. In particular #Tether, the stablecoin whose money is managed by Epstein's next door neighbor and #Trump's current Secretary of Commerce, saw on chain volumes skyrocket.

Also there's the matter of a bunch of suspicious deaths among Epstein's crypto circle.

(RTs appreciated)
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/epsteins-arrest-shook-the-blockchain

#epsteinfiles #epstein #epsteinCoverup #uspol#SaudiArabia #israel#EhudBarak #uspolitics#JeffreyEpstein #crime#corruption #moneylaundering #bitcoin #crypto #blockchain#FSB#Russia #putin#vladimirPutin #cryptocurrency#BTC #tether#USDT#JustinSun

lol back in 2022 both Steve Bannon and Steven Cheung (the trump spokesman whose corporeal form resembles nothing so much as the horrifying outcome of an experiment with an ogre and a donut got terribly wrong) worked on #BrockPierce's senatorial campaign.

Brock Pierce, for those who remember, was the co-founder of one of the most infamous fully confirmed hollywood pedophile rings in US history and was arrested in Marbella in a house full of guns and child pornography prior to becoming a crypto evangelist. he co-founded #Tether, a massive crypto fraud called #EOS, blockchain capital (current owners of #Bluesky) and so much more. he's also tight with #Netanyahu's son Yair.

* politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/bannon-is-helping-a-vermont-crypto-bro-get-elected-to-the-senate-00027264
* more on brock pierce's relationship to epstein: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epstein

#StevenCheung#SteveBannon#MAGA #trump #uspol#corruption #crypto #netanyahu #epstein #epsteinfiles #epsteincoverup #magaCivilWar#Tether

3/ btw if anyone is curious why i’m asserting that brock pierce, autumn radtke, and isabel maxwell were friends / already part of the same social group before Epstein invited Brock to speak at his conference and then Autumn "fell" out of that 25th story window, this is why:

#BrockPierce#Tether#AutumnRadtke#IsabelMaxwell#GhislaineMaxwell#RobertMaxwell #epstein #epsteincoverup #epsteinfiles #uspol #crypto #bitcoin #crime

2/ neither CNBC nor WSJ ran with a headline that even sort of implies Autumn Radtke committed suicide, instead using adjectives like "mysterious" and “unexplained” to describe her defenestration from a Singaporean high rise and subsequent demise.

one of the last people to see #AutumnRadtke alive was Steve Beauregard, chief executive and founder (with #BrockPierce) of #Singapore based GoCoin.

#epsteincoverup #epstein #epsteinfiles #uspol #trump #magacivilwar #bitcoin #crypto#Tether

when i wrote my piece on Epstein's #crypto connections I forgot that #IsabelMaxwell (#Ghislaine's sister) was connected to #BrockPierce even before she invited Pierce to speak at epstein's #Mindshift conference.

Brock Pierce is a big nexus of connection from #Epstein to things like crypto and confirmed pedophile rings (other than his own).

both Maxwell & Pierce were socially close to a crypto broette named #AutumnRadke who died under extremely mysterious circumstances back in 2014. most people think she "fell out of a window", putin style.

* Epstein/Crypto: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114903591655332953
* NY Post on Radke's death: https://nypost.com/2014/03/06/bitcoin-firm-ceo-jumped-to-her-death-neighbor/

#jeffreyepstein #epsteinFiles#EpsteinList#HowardLutnick #trump#MAGAcivilwar#MAGA#BrockPierce#SteveBannon#ReidHoffman#PeterThiel#NerdReich#NetworkState#TheNerdReich#PamBondi#EhudBarak#Israel#Mossad#KGB#GhislaineMaxwell#RobertMaxwell #ukpol #uspol #uspolitics #eupol#CIA #intelligence#MI6#Tether#ValarVentures#EpsteinCoverup#Singapore

lol back in 2022 both Steve Bannon and Steven Cheung (the trump spokesman whose corporeal form resembles nothing so much as the horrifying outcome of an experiment with an ogre and a donut got terribly wrong) worked on #BrockPierce's senatorial campaign.

Brock Pierce, for those who remember, was the co-founder of one of the most infamous fully confirmed hollywood pedophile rings in US history and was arrested in Marbella in a house full of guns and child pornography prior to becoming a crypto evangelist. he co-founded #Tether, a massive crypto fraud called #EOS, blockchain capital (current owners of #Bluesky) and so much more. he's also tight with #Netanyahu's son Yair.

* politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/bannon-is-helping-a-vermont-crypto-bro-get-elected-to-the-senate-00027264
* more on brock pierce's relationship to epstein: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epstein

#StevenCheung#SteveBannon#MAGA #trump #uspol#corruption #crypto #netanyahu #epstein #epsteinfiles #epsteincoverup #magaCivilWar#Tether

3/ btw if anyone is curious why i’m asserting that brock pierce, autumn radtke, and isabel maxwell were friends / already part of the same social group before Epstein invited Brock to speak at his conference and then Autumn "fell" out of that 25th story window, this is why:

#BrockPierce#Tether#AutumnRadtke#IsabelMaxwell#GhislaineMaxwell#RobertMaxwell #epstein #epsteincoverup #epsteinfiles #uspol #crypto #bitcoin #crime

2/ neither CNBC nor WSJ ran with a headline that even sort of implies Autumn Radtke committed suicide, instead using adjectives like "mysterious" and “unexplained” to describe her defenestration from a Singaporean high rise and subsequent demise.

one of the last people to see #AutumnRadtke alive was Steve Beauregard, chief executive and founder (with #BrockPierce) of #Singapore based GoCoin.

#epsteincoverup #epstein #epsteinfiles #uspol #trump #magacivilwar #bitcoin #crypto#Tether