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News articleYahoo Finance· February 1, 2026

Why Tether’s CEO is everywhere right now

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Why Tether’s CEO is everywhere right now Paolo Ardoino, chief executive officer of Tether Holdings SA, speaks during the Plan B Forum Bitcoin conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Friday, Jan…
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  • Even if Bitcoin would go to zero, Tether would have more money than all the USDT tokens issued

    80% confidence
  • For someone whose currency loses 3% daily, a 4% annual interest rate is meaningless

    80% confidence
  • The Last Question is the most magnificent sci-fi piece of literature ever written

    80% confidence
  • Tether has frozen $3.5 billion in tokens, the vast majority of which belonged to people who have been scammed or hacked

    80% confidence
  • The infinite, vast majority of the usage of USDT is by good people

    80% confidence
  • Tether is buying one to two tons of gold per week, positioning itself as one of the biggest gold central banks in the world

    80% confidence
  • Our story is about building a company that can stand the test of time. It's becoming a social impact company that is changing the lives of hundreds of millions of people and providing them something they never had before – stability

    80% confidence
  • Within three to five years, today's most powerful smartphones will be commonplace in Africa and South America, enabling 70-80% of AI use cases

    80% confidence
  • What Tether created is the biggest financial inclusion success story in the history of humanity

    80% confidence
  • USDT will empower the biggest decentralized AI platform in the world

    80% confidence
  • Gold has been the first big, almost ubiquitous form of currency in humanity. For the first time, with blockchain technology, we could actually make gold again a currency used not only as a store of value, but also a way to exchange value

    80% confidence
  • Howard Lutnick has publicly vouched for Tether's legitimacy

    80% confidence
  • The banking system is doing fractional reserve at the length of 90%. So if you deposit $1 million in a bank account, $100,000 is there, and $900,000 is lent out

    80% confidence
  • The amounts highlighted in The Economist piece about money laundering are truly a drop in the ocean

    80% confidence
  • USDT never meant to go after people that had an account in JPMorgan. We went to all the people left behind by the traditional financial system

    80% confidence
  • If that is the same S&P that completely missed the subprimes, I'm proud they're considering us weak

    80% confidence
  • Tether works with almost 300 law enforcement agencies across more than 60 countries

    80% confidence
  • While for the rest of the world, U.S. dollar stablecoins are the savings account, you cannot think about stablecoins for U.S. people as the savings account, but more like a checking account

    80% confidence
  • We redeemed $7 billion in 48 hours – 10% of our reserves. In 20 days, $20 billion – 25% of our reserves. There is no bank in the world that can survive that level of redemptions. We did it with flying colors

    80% confidence
  • I hope that financial inclusion and bringing 536 million people on board onto the dollar is something that both Republicans and Democrats care about. It's a matter of education

    80% confidence
  • In 2023, Tether proactively identified $225 million in a pig-butchering scam in the blink of an eye after traditional financial systems failed to catch it

    80% confidence
  • The transparency of blockchain makes it easier to monitor for illicit activity than traditional banking

    80% confidence
  • Sometimes you are painted in a different light if you don't bend the knee to Wall Street

    80% confidence
  • The motto of Tether is to be the stable company. The reason why we invest in land, cattle, agriculture, modern tech, in gold – the common denominator is ensuring that Tether can remain a cornerstone of the world that is our user

    80% confidence
  • USDT is growing at a pace more like Facebook rather than any other fintech application

    80% confidence
  • If there are cash pallets of hundreds of billions of dollars roaming around the world, U.S. law enforcement can hardly do anything about it. But with USDT, we demonstrated that working with the DOJ, FBI, Secret Service and hundreds of other law enforcement agencies, we could quickly freeze the funds

    80% confidence

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