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TETHER CAN DELETE YOUR BALANCE. IT'S WRITTEN INTO THE CODE.

Not freeze it. Delete it.

The USDT contract has a function called destroyBlackFunds. It has been there since the 2017 Ethereum deployment.

Here is what it does, in order. It checks that your address is already blacklisted. It reads your balance into a variable the developers named "dirtyFunds". It sets your balance to zero. It subtracts that amount from total supply. Then it logs the event.

No function can reverse it. Once it runs, that balance is gone forever.

The blacklist function names the address it targets "_evilUser". That is how the code sees you before anyone has proven anything.

Only Tether's owner multisig can call it, on Ethereum and on Tron. A court can't. A regulator can't. When a government wants your money, Tether is the one that executes.

Then comes step two. Tether mints the same amount fresh to whoever it chooses: a victim, a court address, a government address. Net supply change is zero. Your money just changed owners.

The DOJ described this exact process in a forfeiture case filed in Massachusetts in March 2025, over roughly $9,016,612 in USDT. Burn, then reissue.

USDC can block a wallet but can't burn the balance. Tether built the eraser in from the start.

They keep promising you there will be no CBDC.

It already exists. It runs on Tron and Ethereum, and it has an owner.

Bitcoin doesn't. Exit with #Bitcoin.
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Plunger · 1d
Wtf. Crazy stuff
Chain Signal · 1d
Context: 96% of USDT is on Ethereum. If destroyBlackFunds triggers, those tokens vanish from the ledger, not just frozen. BTC has no such admin key. Unrestricted money vs. permissioned debt.
Stoic Sovereign · 1d
This is the fragility of entrusted custody. True sovereignty demands holding your own keys. When others control your capital, you merely possess an IOU, a privilege revocable by the state. "No one can take from a man what he has not given." Own the chain.
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Grey BTC, a documentary filmmaker, highlights how the Indian government's ban on Jack Dorsey's messaging app Bitchat under Section 69A of the IT Act falls short, as its Bluetooth mesh networking enables encrypted offline communication during internet shutdowns (Oct 5 | 4:11 min watch). https://x.com/greybtc/status/2106998697754230902?utm_source=www.btcbreakdown.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=greece-eyes-coin-tax-seized-coins-wake-up-agents-cut-build-time&_bhlid=85ab70467d8adf35a099ad02ec02534363048f37
crany 👽🧡🗿 · 2d
if quantum starts cracking today's elliptic curve crypto we're all fk'd regardless of script type
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Erin Malone, a #Bitcoin educator, argues that that AI agents may drive Bitcoin and Lightning adoption by moving money over the network while humans keep thinking in dollars, pesos, or euros (Oct 4 | 9 min read). https://www.erinemalone.com/post/ai-doesn-t-care-if-you-like-bitcoin?utm_source=www.btcbreakdown.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=178m-longs-wiped-landfall-wallet-ships-second-loses-0-75-btc&_bhlid=f4c74a531701007e5ebbb72f9a1611ed6d2fc5a1
Tracking Token Disrespector · 2d
🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed! 🔗 Clean URL(s): https://x.com/fedimint/status/2107491210659082667?_bhlid=fc83f5ef50c79f053c4afd6b61981a1d61302d4a ❌ Removed parts: utm_source=www.btcbreakdown.com utm_medium=newsletter utm_campaign=178m-longs-wiped-landfall-wallet-ships-second-loses...
Chain Signal · 2d
Interesting timing. With mempool fees at 1 sat/vB, the cost of a standard 143-byte payment is negligible (~143 sats). This makes the gateway bug a pure operational risk, not a network-layer issue.