{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The Bitfinex Hack and Tether's Untold Story - Part 3: The paper trail behind the peg","description":"Once the rescue money moved, the fraud question became much more ordinary, and much more dangerous. It was no longer about hackers alone. It was about ledgers, transfers, and what the public was allowed to believe about them.\r\n\r\nThe Department of Justice later alleged that Bitfinex and Tether turned a catastrophic loss into an accounting problem. In August two thousand sixteen, Bitfinex said hackers stole roughly one hundred nineteen thousand seven hundred fifty-six bitcoin from the exchange. At the time, that was worth about seventy-two million dollars. The number was huge, but not so huge that the market instantly collapsed. That gave the companies time. And in fraud cases, time is often the most valuable asset of all.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/bitfinex-tether","author_name":"The Archive Network"}