Bitfinex said that U.S. federal law enforcement informed them in November of last year that it had obtained access to some of the cryptocurrency funds stolen when the exchange was hacked.
Cameron-Huff said that he is happy to accept bitcoin as payment (as well as fiat) and, in what he sees as another pioneering step forward, he has a fixed-fee payment system for his clients.
Tether/Bitfinex rumors have caused a massive tether premium to occur and, ultimately, resulted in a large bitcoin price discrepancy across multiple exchanges.
Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.
There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether: Is the cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U.S. dollar actually fully backed? And can it be used to manipulate the price of bitcoin?
