{"id":45940,"date":"2025-09-05T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45940"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:01:42","slug":"tether-to-explore-investments-in-gold-the-natural-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45940","title":{"rendered":"Tether To Explore Investments In Gold, The &#8216;Natural Bitcoin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stablecoin issuer <strong>Tether <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>) is exploring investments in the gold industry as part of its broader strategy to diversify profits from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46582358\/how-trumps-genius-act-could-supercharge-tethers-usdt\">its cryptocurrency operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Quoting sources, Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/135fb3dd-2395-4f04-8cc6-7fb0e87cd092\">reported<\/a> on Friday that the company has held discussions with mining groups and investment firms about opportunities across the gold supply chain, including mining, refining, trading, and royalty agreements.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Tether continues to generate significant profits from its USDT stablecoin, which has a market capitalization of $168 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The firm earned $5.7 billion in profit during the first half of the year, largely through interest from U.S. Treasuries it holds as backing for the token.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive <strong>Paolo Ardoino<\/strong> has previously described gold as a &#8220;natural <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>),&#8221; emphasizing its role as a long-standing store &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/09\/47519465\/tether-to-explore-investments-in-gold-the-natural-bitcoin\" alt=\"Tether\" to explore investments in gold the bitcoin>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stablecoin issuer Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) is exploring investments in the gold industry as part of its broader strategy to diversify profits from its cryptocurrency operations. What Happened: Quoting sources, Financial Times reported on Friday that the company has held discussions with mining groups and investment firms about opportunities across the gold supply chain, including mining, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-45940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}