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Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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Re: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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This may be 100% unrelated/wrong: Check out "OZ49 Corporation". It has some shared directors with some other Panama crypto companies, and a director name Oz: https://opencorporates.com/companies/pa/155664811

no its not. It is Ozzie Joseph https://graphcommons.com/graphs/cf637f7f-8eef-43fa-94a3-f861...

Oz yosef

https://i.imgur.com/mSw7kNK.png

Re: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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I feel the same about 99% of crypto participants - but you can't deny there are a handful of legitimate areas. IPFS and Golem come to mind.

I'm not sure IPFS uses blockchain? It seems to work like bittorent. Golem I'll give you might be a legit use.

Sorry, should have been clearer. Filecoin (from the same company) sits atop IPFS, acting as a cryptocurrency for distributed file storage.

IIRC, their ICO was massively oversubscribed a year or two ago, so they're sitting on a great big pile of cash.

I don't think it's a viable business model yet, but it's definitely not a scam.

Re: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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You misunderstood. With the "Fractional Reserve Banking" system, banks lend out money that is NOT under deposit. They are licensed to lend out money created from nothing. This is the mechanism by which money is created https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-economics/chapte...

> banks lend out money that is NOT under deposit What do you mean? From that link: “banks lend out most of the deposits they have collected”, “keep a fraction of their deposits in reserve and may loan out the rest”. Obviously they can not hold and lend the money at the same time.

They lend out MORE than was deposited. They literally create money out of nothing and lend it. That is how fiat money is created.

Re: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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> banks lend out money that is NOT under deposit What do you mean? From that link: “banks lend out most of the deposits they have collected”, “keep a fraction of their deposits in reserve and may loan out the rest”. Obviously they can not hold and lend the money at the same time.

They lend out MORE than was deposited. They literally create money out of nothing and lend it. That is how fiat money is created.

They don’t.

Re: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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This may be 100% unrelated/wrong: Check out "OZ49 Corporation". It has some shared directors with some other Panama crypto companies, and a director name Oz: https://opencorporates.com/companies/pa/155664811

no its not. It is Ozzie Joseph https://graphcommons.com/graphs/cf637f7f-8eef-43fa-94a3-f861...

This graphcommons link is down (error 404). I had a peek at it yesterday when it was up and it seemed to contain interesting information I haven't seen elsewhere. Can you provide a reference for this data?

Re: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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post #266

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no its not. It is Ozzie Joseph https://graphcommons.com/graphs/cf637f7f-8eef-43fa-94a3-f861...

This graphcommons link is down (error 404). I had a peek at it yesterday when it was up and it seemed to contain interesting information I haven't seen elsewhere. Can you provide a reference for this data?

It's back up.

Re: Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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They lend out MORE than was deposited. They literally create money out of nothing and lend it. That is how fiat money is created.

They don’t.

Believe it or not, this is an official, legal mechanism of money creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Fractional_rese...
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