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164 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 12 Aug \ on: Stacker Saloon
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:
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.
But this is the thing that most articles about the founding of tether refer to. So where are they getting Quigley?
Eventually I find https://www.pgconnects.com/sanfrancisco/speakers/william-quigley/
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...