Tether 管理層今年給自己頒發了大額股息，表明他們相信美國當局即將對世界上最大的穩定幣進行打擊的報道

Tether 發布了最新的季度儲備資產“證明”，據稱支持截至 9 月 30 日已發行的 1194 億美元 USDT 穩定幣。

Tether management has paid themselves major dividends this year, suggesting they believe reports that U.S. authorities are about to drop the hammer on the world’s largest stablecoin.

Tether 管理層今年已經為自己支付了巨額股息，這表明他們相信有關美國當局即將對全球最大穩定幣進行打擊的報告。

On Wednesday, Tether disclosed that its market cap increased by $27.8 billion in the first nine months of 2024, reaching $96.4 billion. This surge is almost equivalent to the entire market cap of its closest competitor.

週三，Tether 披露，其市值在 2024 年前 9 個月增加了 278 億美元，達到 964 億美元。這一激增幾乎相當於其最接近競爭對手的整個市值。

Tether’s Q3 attestation also revealed that its alleged T-bill stash ranks among the top 18 holders globally if it were classified as a country, putting it above Germany, Australia, and the UAE.

Tether 的第三季證明還顯示，如果將其列為一個國家，其所謂的國庫券持有量在全球排名前 18 位，高於德國、澳洲和阿聯酋。

Tether supporters often use this stat to claim some kind of immunity to U.S. legal action, but Tether’s T-bills represent a mere 0.0027% of the total $36 billion in circulating T-bills, so maybe don’t throw away that criminal attorney’s business card just yet.

Tether 支持者經常利用這一統計數據來聲稱對美國法律訴訟享有某種豁免權，但 Tether 的國債僅佔流通國債總額 360 億美元的 0.0027%，所以也許不要扔掉那位刑事律師的名片還沒有。

Tether’s Ardoino recently acknowledged his company’s vulnerability due to most of its apples being in Cantor Fitzgerald’s basket, admitting that “if the U.S. wanted to kill us, they can press a button and kill us everywhere.”

Tether 的Ardoino 最近承認，由於該公司的大部分蘋果都在Cantor Fitzgerald 的籃子裡，因此該公司存在脆弱性，並承認「如果美國想殺死我們，他們可以按一個按鈕，在任何地方殺死我們。

And yet it was only last year that Tether warned the market about “the risks stablecoin users face while holding a stablecoin that has a significant jurisdictional concentration in one country or banking system.”

然而，直到去年，Tether 才向市場發出警告，稱「穩定幣用戶在持有司法集中在一個國家或銀行系統的穩定幣時面臨風險」。

That warning came after Circle nearly lost $3.3 billion via the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which held a good chunk of Circle’s cash reserves. Circle was ultimately saved when the U.S. federal government stepped in with a bail-out of SVB’s depositors, proving once again that there are no atheists in foxholes and no libertarians in financial holes of their own making.

此前，Circle 因持有 Circle 大量現金儲備的矽谷銀行 (SVB) 倒閉而損失了 33 億美元。當美國聯邦政府出面救助SVB的儲戶時，Circle最終得救了，這再次證明散兵​​坑裡不存在無神論者，也不存在陷入自己造成的財務困境的自由主義者。

In addition to rumors of Department of Justice (DoJ) indictments being prepared, U.S. Treasury meetings are showing renewed interest in bringing some regulatory order to the stablecoin market in the hopes of avoiding a repeat of the ‘wildcat banking’ era of the 19th century.

除了有關司法部 (DoJ) 正在準備起訴書的傳言之外，美國財政部會議也表現出了對穩定幣市場實施一些監管命令的新興趣，希望避免重蹈 19 世紀「野貓銀行」時代的覆轍。

With Tether HQ looking like the Führerbunker circa April 1945, senior management is showing less compunction about dipping into Tether’s ‘excess reserves.’ The Q3 attestation shows dividend distributions topping $550 million so far this year, and hey, Christmas is coming, so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Tether 總部看起來就像 1945 年 4 月左右的元首地堡，高階管理層對於動用 Tether 的「超額儲備」表現得不再那麼內疚。第三季的證明顯示，今年迄今為止的股息分配已超過 5.5 億美元，嘿，聖誕節即將到來，所以讓它下雪吧，讓它下雪吧，讓它下雪吧。

Meanwhile, Tether’s self-aggrandizing promotional activities show no sign of letting up. The Q3 PR offered lofty proclamations of “transcending traditional financial boundaries,” including the boundaries imposed on the use of the U.S. dollar by the people that issue the U.S. dollar.

同時，Tether自我誇大的促銷活動絲毫沒有停止的跡象。第三季公關高調宣稱“超越傳統金融界限”，包括美元發行者對美元使用施加的界限。

Tether also boasts about “enabling access to a stable financial system,” again ignoring that this stability was not built by Tether, nor was Tether ever given permission to enable access by pig butcherers, money launderers, and sanctions-dodgers.

Tether 也吹噓“能夠進入穩定的金融體系”，但再次忽視了這種穩定性不是由 Tether 建立的，Tether 也從未獲得允許生豬屠宰者、洗錢者和逃避制裁者進入的許可。

As Bloomberg’s Matt Levine recently observed, the line Tether is walking here is a very fine one: “‘We are a way to send dollars without quite as much interference from the U.S. government’ is a good pitch, but not if the U.S. government hears it.”

正如彭博社的馬特·萊文(Matt Levine) 最近觀察到的那樣，Tether 在這裡走的路線非常好：“'我們是一種在不受美國政府乾預的情況下發送美元的方式'，這是一個很好的宣傳，但如果美國政府聽到的話，情況就不是這樣了。