Comment by Good4boothee

> Tether's entire business model, providing an almost-unregulated USD cryptocurrency, relies on them not arbitrarily banning people

No, their entire business model relies on bank/CC providers don't ban them. Somehow, they treat all crypto related transactions as iffy but USDT, bought to buy crypto, got under much less scrutiny. The entire problem their solver was that new users couldn't move cash to exchanges fast enough to join bull runs.