Tether’s diversification over the past couple of months says a lot. It makes it pretty clear the Bitcoin bubble has run its course and they’re gearing up for the cash-out and laundering phase.
They’ve quietly stepped back from their usual BTC purchases and loaded up on Gold, now sitting on roughly $13B, plus heavy fiat reserves. At the same time, they’ve spread money across a string of new ventures: $925M into Rumble, giving them influence over crypto narratives and the ability to bury criticism. In an era of information warfare, owning a platform like that buys them friendly coverage and a clean revenue loop through ads and user data.
They’ve also announced a $5B AI platform, invested €70M in humanoid robotics, taken a €1B stake in Neura Robotics, grabbed a controlling stake in Northern Data for AI infrastructure, and even added exposure through Adecoagro’s BTC mining.
This is a push for control over AI infrastructure and a move toward building surveillance and data monopolies. We warned about this over a year ago.
All of it positions Tether as a high-tech laundering funnel. They can push “excess reserves” into ventures that generate real returns while muddying where the original money came from. It’s their exit plan. And they’re trying to lock USDT into AI systems because automated transactions make it even easier to bury movement of funds inside endless machine-to-machine flows. If USDT becomes the default for that world, they gain a constant, opaque transaction layer disguised as “innovation.”
When you zoom out, the pattern is the same: print an unbacked, unaudited fraud token out of thin air, use it to artificially prop up Bitcoin and anything else they can, then use the excess profits to lobby everyone from US lawmakers to El Salvador to major institutions to build a “narrative” for why it keeps going up. Keep the game alive, avoid suspicion, and ride the bubble until it inevitably pops. Then slip into a web of completely unrelated ventures that conveniently provide clean exits, laundering channels, and lifeboats.
It’s exactly what it looks like when insiders know the ship is going down. They’re already heading for the lifeboats while everyone else is still dancing on deck.
Whenever Bitcoin maximalists mention this so-called revolution against fiat, banks, and centralization, it’s comical how fake it is.
Not only are they the biggest defenders of centralized exchanges and Ponzi services like Tether, but let’s not forget how quickly they bent over for Wall Street.
Every single person in BTC doesn’t care about the “revolution” they invented to lure in more suckers, they care about making quick fiat gains. That’s peak irony, considering what Bitcoin was supposedly designed for. Today, it has zero function other than being a tool for speculative gambling.
Implying a @Ripple bait-and-switch strategy to lure institutions via Ethereum mischaracterises their long-proven multi-chain use and investments.
Facts:
1. Ripple cofounder Chris Larsen just led a multi-million dollar funding round for @Yellow a multi-chain Layer3 Clearing Network that utilises the XRPL EVM Sidechain along with Arbitrum, Binance and Ethereum (for now).
2. Ripple's Harmonize platform (via Metaco acquisition) is a multi-chain orchestration system, providing custody, trading, tokenisation & staking with👉smart contract management. (See image)
3. In 2021, David Schwarts celebrated XRP to Ethereum wallets for DeFi and smart contracts.
https://t.co/Y30pA14osT
4. Ripple made a HUGE investment in XRPL EVM Sidechain.
5. $RLUSD launched with the intention of being a multichain stablecoin.
6. Ripple has invested in many non-XRPL and ETH based projects. @NEARProtocol in 2019, https://t.co/5jmLFzZo4T, Dharma, Flare, Kava, Eternity Chain (now Epic Chain), Vega, Securitize, Forte and others.
Finally, a "Vampire Attack" involves forking code to extract liquidity incentives from a single chain. RLUSD is a permissioned issuance with no forking or incentive draining.
Nowhere in the Bitcoin whitepaper does it mention BTC being a store of value, an inflation hedge, recession proof, digital gold, a geopolitical hedge, or a retirement asset.
These narratives were 100% invented by maxis to push the scheme on more naive retail sheep, because the entire system depends on constant inflows to keep the price propped up so early holders can extract more fiat.
Satoshi explicitly described Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer system for online payments. That was almost 2 decades ago. Today it is slow, obsolete, expensive to use, and practically irrelevant in real commerce.
So yes, when I say Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and functions purely as a speculative gambling instrument, that is a fact, not an opinion.
@CryptoCurb You forgot to say Solana paid $50 million for a 6 month partnership. You also didnt mention that Western Unions business has been slowly declining and Ripple would never pay this random for a partnership.
@BankXRP@Ripple@bgarlinghouse It’s like they haven’t been watching anything that Ripple’s done over the last 11 months. This arrogance is what will get them to lose, they’re clearly overconfident.
🚨 JUST IN:
#BINANCE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR MONEY LAUNDERING.
FRANCE IS CONDUCTING A FULL SCALE INSPECTION TARGETING SUSPICIOUS CRYPTO TRANSACTIONS.
MAJOR CEX COLLAPSE INCOMING??
CZ started a war with FTX (and won)
CZ then started a war with Hyperliquid (and lost)
CZ then started a war with CryptoTwitter (and got slaughtered)
Lesson in there.
Get your funds off Binance immediately.
🚨 JUST IN: MULTIPLE PROJECTS REPORTING @BINANCE CHARGES $2,250,000+ IN DEPOSITS + 8% TOKEN ALLOCATIONS ($8,000,000 FOR $100M MC PROJECTS, OVER $10,000,000 IN CUMULATIVE FEES)
QUIT USING BINANCE
GET YOUR FUNDS OFF BINANCE IMMEDIATELY
🚨 JUST IN: @cryptocom CEO IS CALLING ON REGULATORS TO INVESTIGATE @binance FOLLOWING $400B IN LIQUIDATIONS FLASH CRASH CAUSED BY BINANCE’S FAULTY INTERNAL PRICE ORACLES
GET YOUR FUNDS OFF BINANCE IMMEDIATELY
#Tether watch!
Just deleted a long thread about what happened Friday because there's still no fucking point.
Gist of it: Binance liquidated all of you like in April 2021. They're in league with Tether, which is controlling the price like a fucking etch-a-sketch.
Yer all idiots