Spending the evening reading about Tether, as one does, and I come across this article from July of this year calling some guy named William Quigley the co-founder of Tether. This came as a bit of a surprise, as I haven't heard the name much. So then I google him a little and see that he's calling himself Co-founder of Tether all over the place, but none of the people involved in Tether talk about him.

Okay, so where does Quigley come in? Because when I search for his name and Brock Pierce and Realcoin, I get a number of mentions of Quigley (here, here and here.

And then I find this ByteBridge article that claims:

William Quigley: Provided essential financial insights by upholding a strict 1:1 reserve ratio and enhancing transparency through regular audits. Quigley’s financial oversight has been critical in maintaining market trust in Tether. His efforts in implementing regular audits and transparent reporting have helped address controversies regarding Tether’s reserve backing.

But honestly, it reads like ai slop, so I'm not sure it can be trusted.

The original announcement of Tether (back when it was called Realcoin) doesn't mention Quigley.

Founded by Brock Pierce, a former Disney child actor who is now a prolific bitcoin investor, along with ad industry entrepreneur Reeve Collins and software engineer Craig Sellars, Realcoin is... July 12, 2014

But this is the thing that most articles about the founding of tether refer to. So where are they getting Quigley?

Eventually I find this:

He [William Quigley] and his business partner Jonathan Yantis – OPSkins COO – were early backers and the largest investors in Mastercoin, the technical forerunner to Ethereum and the world’s first ICO.

The first Tether were launched on Mastercoin. So, it looks to me like dude based his "co-founder of Tether" moniker on his Mastercoin investment. If you watch videos of him he's constantly saying "we" and "our" in reference to Tether, and he's definitely living into the idea that he's a co-founder.

According to Wikipedia, he was also an investor in a 2010 gaming venture by Brock Pierce. So it's possible he had some connection via that route, too. There's a medium article about Quigley that says"“William was one of the founders of GoCoin, Tether…” said crypto legend Brock Pierce at World Crypto Con in Las Vegas last week." But it's only evidence is a link to a WAX IO tweet that has since been deleted.

When I search for the exact phrase that the medium article quotes, no source other than the medium article comes up. Maybe he was integral to getting Tether (then Realcoin) off the ground and everybody just forgot to mention it at the time...

I removed the YouTube app from my phone. A few days ago, I noticed that it would play ads almost every 15 minutes or so, and at the start of new videos. It never did that before (on my phone app at least). Into the trash you go.

Anyone have other recommendations? I primarily use it for background listening when I'm doing chores / driving.

@CaffeinatedUser

Qubic just reached 51% share of Monero. This is a huge feat. They will be the first to manipulate a cryptocurrency with a 51% attack. They intend to orphan all blocks from every other miner, making themselves the only mining entity of Monero. The only way to mine Monero will be through them and they are 3X more profitable than mining Monero directly. They are giving half the profit to miners and selling the other half of the profit to buy QUBIC and send it to the burn wallet. If they mine 100% of the Monero blocks this gives them 432 Monero mined per day. This is $118,342.08 at the current Monero price. They keep 50% of that and give the rest to miners making their profit $59,171.04 of Qubic being burned every day. $414,197.28 burned a week and $1.656 million burned every month. This is insane.

This is history being made here. Qubic a less than 300 million dollar market cap will be the sole miner of a 6 billion dollar market cap coin.

BM: Former White House Crypto Council Executive Director Bo Hines says there "is a clear directive to build a strategic Bitcoin reserve."

"the effort will continue and accelerate"

I'm so happy with stacker news zine! It's so fun to put together and send out to you guys. I'm printing and sending issue #20 today.

Can anyone say if they have a favorite cover? https://www.plebpoet.com/zines.html

OR any ideas for issue #21 !??

Hey @siggy47 is there still a fiction contest going on in the territory this month? I haven't seen any submissions.

This Train Can't Be Stopped By Anyone ⚡

Good morning Cowboys!

Watching a documentary on Nvidia as I browse through SN - Multitasking

Day 594 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 501 sats on 10Aug2025!
Running total: 397,898 sats!

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Happiness Journal 11/8/25

Managed to hand over my condo unit successfully and get my deposit back. After hearing horror stories of how landlords gobbled up their tenants’ deposit, I count my lucky stars that mine was the honest and easygoing sort.

Met my landlord for the first time, and he showed me his papaya tree that he has been growing outside his window! Man, what a way to manipulate the environment to suit his fancy!

In other news, I wanted to be productive and mark my students’ essays. However, procrastination draped her mighty slumber cloak over my determination. Napped once in the morning and lay down on my bed for 30 minutes in the afternoon. I’m super productive - from another perspective!

Scrambled to mark 3 students’ compositions before I went to pick up my kids. These were the kids whom I had deemed to have potential to score AL1. So, if I just mark theirs and give them some targeted feedback tomorrow, I can remain one step ahead of the class and retain my moral authority.

Vibe coding is fun. So fun I burnt up all my free agent credits on replit. But I also see its limitations plus I even wonder would this app even work at all