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This is not what Tether is intended to be. Tether is not pegged to the value of 1 USD. The value of Tether does not need to be stabilized. Tether is a 1 for 1 USD backed coin, meaning it's entirely within the scope of Tether for the value of 1USDT to reach $1.10, $1.20 or even $1.50 -- if the market decides that is the value of it.

The point of Tether is that for each USDT there is a corresponding USD in an account belonging to Tether. If Tether were printing USDT to keep 1 USDT valued at 1 USD then they would be violating what Tether is publicly stated to be.

The whitepaper can be found here: https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TetherWhitePape...

parent citricsquid 8 years ago

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