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Bad example. BofA besides having the federal government to prop it up works on fractional reserve explicitly.

Tether works on explicitly the opposite principle. One banked dollar for every minted Tether. Since they have no government propping them up, the certainty of those dollars is the only thing you can hold onto as far as Tether’s reality. Once they’re gone, the music stops.



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