I rarely share investment advice unless I am 95% sure of a strategy's EV, and in this case I would like to get your input.
It APPEARS here there is almost no risk of a serious downside, and a chance for a huge upside.
But it requires doing a bit of research to find the best exchange to trade USDT via DAI with 100x leverage, like HitBTC maybe.
The Backstory
So basically, the one big landmine that's unexploded in the crypto space is Tether. Tether represents the on- and off-ramp for crypto around the world outside the USA. In the USA, it's not used due to regulations. Outside, it's used for something like 80% of the volume!
You know the joke "if I had a dollar for every..." well, Tether likely doesn't! And the chance that Tether Inc. and its trustees have a dollar in a Bahamas bank to back every Tether issued is very small, considering ALL BANKS IN THE BAHAMAS COMBINED do not have as much as the amount of Tether out there.
Here is someone else's analysis with actual data and graphs... https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-inside-cryptos-doomsday-machine-f8dcf78a64d3
His conclusion was to exit the crypto market into dollars. I have a different suggestion:
The play:
Find one or more exchanges where you can trade DAI vs USDT on high leverage. Then 100x leverage margin long DAI vs USDT. If somehow everything is fine, you don't lose much, just keep covering your margin. Tether ain't gonna go above $1 very much and DAI isn't gonna fall. But IF THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL IS GOOD AT THEIR JOB, they're going to find something and send Tether dropping. For every cent it drops you can make $1.00
So this is almost riskless. And what else has such good odds of going up next week? Cardano? NOTHING. Nothing can be guaranteed to go up but not down. Except this.
At least a cryptocoin plan that makes minimal sense, but I don't like to encourage people to do this kind of things. Anyway, two old timeless advice:
* The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
* Never invest more than you can afford to lose.
So we are in a crypto market that's bullish right now, all the alts have popped, but this news may send tether sinking. (It may or may not send other cryptos sinking because how do you cash out of tether, without buying something else?)
Tether has tanked before, badly: https://www.coindesk.com/price-of-tether-stablecoin-tanks-to...
Reminder that Tether can just exit any time and their token: https://www.reddit.com/r/xmrtrader/comments/kuy2kw/friendly_...