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World's biggest private gold holder Tether gives users weeks to exit vault
World's biggest private gold holder Tether gives users weeks to exit vault. The story is more interesting for what it reveals about Tether's balance sheet than for any market impact from the shutdown itself, since Alloy was always a roundin
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World's biggest private gold holder Tether gives users weeks to exit vault. The story is more interesting for what it reveals about Tether's balance sheet than for any market impact from the shutdown itself, since Alloy was always a roundin
World's biggest private gold holder Tether gives users weeks to exit vault
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World's biggest private gold holder Tether gives users weeks to exit vault. The story is more interesting for what it reveals about Tether's balance sheet than for any market impact from the shutdown itself, since Alloy was always a roundin
Context
The story is more interesting for what it reveals about Tether's balance sheet than for any market impact from the shutdown itself, since Alloy was always a rounding error against Tether's broader gold holdings, with only a few hundred thousand dollars of Tether Gold locked in the platform against a company wide stash worth close to 19 billion dollars. That stash is the more consequential detail for anyone tracking physical gold demand: at 146 metric tons and rising after a 14 tonne addition last quarter, Tether now sits ahead of many national reserves as a private holder of bullion, a scale t…
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- Whipsaw risk is elevated inside the first 15–60 minutes after release.
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