It’s not the most significant bits of news: a Twitter account is now back online after being temporarily suspended. Then again, “Tether Printer” (or, as it’s currently called, “Not Tether Printer”) isn’t a simple account.It was down for a couple of days but was back in operation Monday night. Tether, of course, is the allegedly U.S. dollar-backed cryptocurrency that happens to have been started by the same folks who run Bitfinex, the world’s largest bitcoin marketplace. It’s alleged that large chunks of tether are being issued out of thin air and being used by the company’s owners to prop up the prices of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on exchanges, especially…
Fake Tethers under fake bitcoins. It's an illustration of what may be happening (Photo via Shutterstock).