Will Tether (USDT) be "unpegged" by the end of 2023?
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A duplicate of this market, but for 2023.

Tether (USDT) is a so-called "stablecoin", i.e., a cryptocurrency which is (supposed to be) backed by actual currency so that its value is pegged to the US Dollar. Tether has long been suspected to not actually hold the reserves necessary to back all existing USDT. A bounty of $1 million [1] for anyone who provides information on Tether's backing has so far not been claimed. On the other hand, Tether is very useful for trading cryptocurrencies, and many in the business probably do not care about whether it is actually backed, as long as it serves its purpose.

This market resolves YES if the value of one USDT is less than 0.9 US Dollars for more than one (consecutive) week of the year 2023 (as reported by [2]).

[1] https://hindenburgresearch.com/tether/

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

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predicted NO

Beautiful graph

predicted NO

(The spike in March was to $1.01.)

predicted YES

This is a funny analysis of Tether red flags. I'm too dumb to understand it all, but it sounds plausible. Still I fear Tether will survive yet.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-tetherers-apprentice?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

predicted YES
bought Ṁ10 of YES

Tether's peg seems strong and true,
But some are skeptical, it's nothing new.
Is it destined to float free?
In 2023, we'll just have to see.

Note this market should be closely linked to this one but does not currently trade as if that were true: https://manifold.markets/ACXBot/36-will-tether-depeg-in-2023 (I am assuming the "of the year 2022" is a typo caused by copy/pasting.)

predicted NO

@patio11 Thanks for pointing this out! I've (mostly) closed the arbitrage. :-)