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you can't make a profit like that. banks (and tether) make profit by miniting news tickets out of thin air, lending the newly minted tickets at a certain rate, once the credit is reimbursed they usually destroy the minted tickets and keep the profit.


That’s one approach to profit, called “fractional reserve”.

Typically, people who want a 1-1 backed coin are uncomfortable with that model… so you instead take profit on the issuance: you charge $1.05 to issue $1 in tokens (while keeping $1 in the vault) — a process called seigniorage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage


$1 buys one tether. One tether redeems for $0.999. Then there's also interest on T-bills and stuff.




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