Tether (iMessage and SMS on Linux)

“We'll see whether Tether has the assets they claim when the next crypto winter comes.”

“They have been caught cheating before, their numbers are astronomical, and no crypto numbers are actually verified and regulated.”

“What if they mint coins without collateral (they have been caught doing this before)”

“The Tether T&C says that they can basically do whatever they want with your wallet”

“There is no permanently frozen guarantee. Tether can and has unfrozen addresses before.”

“To be fair tether hasn't actually lost billions of dollars yet, whereas banks absolutely have.”

“Its been obvious from the beginning of tether and reinforced by how interested governments are in the idea of stable coins”

“Tether now exists as a casino chip central bank. They can just freeze and print more and provide a backstop to the major CEXs.”

“Both times they've been forced to show the books, they only had fractional backing.”

“you've been publishing attestations for years and now you have a full independent audit from KPMG”

“Benchmarked on the whole Go 1.25 stdlib; found a real WaitGroup hang in database/sql's tests.”

“a lot (most, really) of Tether's functionality works without having to open the app”

“The tether app still has occasional issues re-connecting”

“The nice thing about Tether is that it's read only”

“it never fully establishes a working 2-way connection and none of the features ever become available”

“I ran into similar issues on a mostly stock Ubuntu 24. When I start the gtk app, it has a scan devices button but it never finds my phone”

“couldn't get it to reliably connect - the feedback from linux and ios apps were vague and didn't help with what was broken”

“It even works on Windows.”

“Tether seems like it could be useful to bridge that gap”

“I love that Tether is helping to figure out all the quirks there”

“this is a lot more features than openbubbles could ever do”

“it worked better than I expected, I wanted everyone to have it”

“Thank you for all the hard work and inspiration.”

“Pretty cool stuff either way!”

“this is so much better than having to send it via a BlueBubbles bridge”

“Tether seems a lot more polished.”

“tether seems like it would do this?”

“This is incredibly timely as I moved my first choice personal computer to full time linux this week”

“if you have the same setup as the author then use it”

“Mega-kudos to the author for chipping away at the wall around Apple's garden.”

“leaving xmr monero ecosystem to cash out to surveillance currencies like btc or tether”

“what's unaudited is whether the t-bills behind them are really there in the amounts claimed”

“These scammers aren't concerning themselves with even a false facade, as long as government explicitly allows them to operate.”

“I was naive for ever thinking the Tether stable coin scam would actually implode”

“It's working really well for me”

“I built a helper [1] that adds a monitoring layer on top”

“Tether actually has one of the better business models out of all of it.”

“all the successful people would tell me that they thought there was something really wrong with Tether”

“they publish attestations from third-parties, but no full audits, so sure they could be much more transparent”

“Every quarter, BDO confirms Tether's assets by going to Tether's banking partners directly.”