As far as USDT (Tether) goes, perhaps think Lehman, and the other suspects of Wall Street ... USDT is arguably more consequential, and as far as I see running wild, printing new money, taking in deposit of old money, and somehow making a living arbitraging the different laws of metaverse and normal verse to generating energy useful to the founder / owner / operators of Tether.
Much going on in crypto reminds me, TobagoJack / JackoFantastic, on this date 2021 10 29, of what the "Pump" did in the Isaac Asimov novel "The Gods Themselves". All very exciting.
en.wikipedia.org
Overview In terms of the setting in the future, ... Lamont was 25 years old when he began working at the Pump Station. Accordingly, the bulk of the novel is set sometime around the year 2093. In Part III, the novel states that the Earth's population has been reduced to two billion people following a "Great Crisis". It caused significant ecological damage, with all apes except for gibbons extinct outside of zoos, and technological progress being viewed with suspicion - for example, genetic engineering research is banned outright. ... The main plot-line is a project by those who inhabit a parallel universe (the para-Universe) with different physical laws from this one. By exchanging matter from their universe—para-Universe—with our universe, they seek to exploit the differences in physical laws. The exchange of matter provides an alternative source of energy to maintain their universe. However, the exchange will likely result in the collapse of the Earth's Sun into a supernova, and possibly even turning a large part of the Milky Way into a quasar. There is hope among those in the para-Universe that the energy explosion does happen in our universe. |
