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It's my understanding that Tether transactions aren't traceable because there isn't a public blockchain...and possibly not even a blockchain at all. So the obfuscating step is the USD->USDT transaction. The rest of the process is getting clean money back.


Tether is on Omni layer. Its transactions are registered on the Bitcoin blockchain and I think that makes it traceable.

USD -> USDT and back is traceable using standard investigations of books and banking transcripts of entities dealing with Tether's managers.

Also, Tether is by now an internet-wide phenomenon. It's in the spotlight. And yet it keeps growing.




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