{"id":14117,"date":"2019-07-22T22:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=14117"},"modified":"2019-07-23T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T21:55:36","slug":"bitfinex-tether-response-to-ny-ag-quick-twitter-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/07\/22\/bitfinex-tether-response-to-ny-ag-quick-twitter-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitfinex\/Tether response to NY AG \u2014  quick Twitter thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing a news post, and I&#8217;ve been waiting all day for these documents to drop, furiously hitting F5 \u2014 and iFinex got them in right on the dot of 5:30pm New York time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=6drrB8uhuIMbaGMj5Nsd4g==\">document 111<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=Ys6xvVcox4UE78PmpeGUQA==\">document 112.<\/a> Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgerard\/status\/1153421038845333509\">my Twitter thread,<\/a> with my very quick read through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> this is surprisingly good and non-delusional lawyering \u2014 about as good as could be achieved, given the awful facts. Their strategy to defy &#8220;but 2+2=4&#8221; is to deny the existence of 2 and 2. There are some obvious gaps in their arguments. I will be unsurprised if they get a bit more delay out of this, though.<\/p>\n<p>News post tomorrow, with a bit more thought in my responses!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Full post <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/07\/23\/bitfinex-and-tether-tell-the-new-york-ag-they-have-nothing-to-do-with-new-york\/\">is now up.<\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting all day for these documents to drop, furiously hitting F5 \u2014 and iFinex got them in right on the dot of 5:30pm New York time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,1357,594,39],"class_list":["post-14117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bitfinex","tag-ifinex","tag-new-york","tag-tether"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14158,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}