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And with that, please enjoy this week's episode. What's up, up up everybody? I had every intention of releasing a guest recording this week,

but I found myself pulled down a series of dark rabbit holes that began with me getting up to speed on everything that has been public knowledge and then some about the stable coin USDT, otherwise known as Tether, after getting a flood

of emails and calls from listeners who were all sending me the same article published

by an anonymous author on medium that was resurfacing claims

going back to at least 2017 about Tether and its sister company Bitfenex, for which the two

are currently under investigation by the Southern District of New York

and the New York Attorney General's office. An investigation that officially began at least as early as

2018. So this has been going on for a while. I spent all of Sunday

painstakingly going through each and every link in the medium post.

And following that up by listening to a series of podcasts,

including two with Bennett Tomlin and Larry Sermack,

hosted by Patrick McKinsey,

and another featuring Cass Pianci and Matthew Graham hosted by Richard

Jan both on the blockchain debate podcast which is a phenomenal resource by the, for anyone who is interested in hearing people debate

ideas that you normally never hear in crypto because of how tribal everyone tends to be

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