Tether shoots rumors of sale from Bitcoin, bend in BTC, gold and land
The Internet loves a good conspiracy theory, especially when Tether is involved, the perpetual Boogeyman of Crypto Twitter. This week, the rumors rolled out that the world’s largest stable emitter was throwing their Bitcoin bags to pursue bright metal. But the CEO of Tether, Paolo Ardoino, didn’t have it.
In a Sunday post in unknownArdoino flatly denied speculation, stating that the company “did not sell any bitcoin.” Instead, he reaffirmed Tether’s strategy to take excess profits and park them in hard assets: Bitcoin, gold and, in a movement that worshiped any prepper, the earth.
Ardoino flatly denied speculation, source: unknown
Where did the rumor of
The drama began when Youtuber Clive Thompson said Tether’s quarterly certifications showed a Bitcoin sale. According to his mathematics, Tether’s BTC stash was reduced from 92,650 BTC in Q1 to 83,274 BTC in the second quarter of 2025. TWITTER PANIC CUES: Was Tether unloading coins in secret while all the others stacked SAT?
Not quite. Samson Mow, CEO of Jan3 and Evangelist de Bitcoin de Long Data, intervened with a verification of reality. He explained that Tether had simply changed 19,800 BTC to twenty -one capital (XXI), a new Bitcoin native financial platform directed by Jack Mallers de Strike. That included 14,000 BTC in June and another 5,800 in July. Translation: the coins moved, they were not abandoned.
Mow even pointed out that, if the transfer takes into account, Tether actually increased his net holdings. Ardoino supported this, calling FUD rumors and reiterating that Tether is still one of the largest institutional Bitcoin whales on the planet.
The biggest image: the tether war chest
From now on, Tie It controls more than 100,521 BTC, with a value of around $ 11.17 billion, according to Bitcintrease.net. That puts it in the same league as Michael Saylor’s microstrategy and even some sovereign nations. Tether’s general balance has become less on boring bonds and more about the construction of a hard money resistant to apocalypse. Bitcoin for growth, gold for tradition and earth for permanence.
And let’s be real – Tie He is playing a state-state game. When Ardoino says that the world “is getting dark” and they are covering with safe assets, that is not just public relations fluff. It is a recognition that the dollar, which is being linked to the USDT Stablecoin of Tether, looks more long -term stirring.
Meanwhile in El Salvador …
Adding fuel to the narrative, El Salvador announced that it has just bought 13,999 ounces of Troy gold (approximately $ 50 million), its first purchase of gold since 1990. This is in addition to its Bitcoin battery of $ 700 million (6,292 BTC). The moment is interesting: while Tether denies selling Bitcoin to buy gold, a nation state of Bitcoin in reality is doing such diversification.
The IMF, of course, hastened to notice that El Salvador has not bought any new bitcoin since February. But gold? Perfectly respectable in your eyes. It shows the division in play books: Old World Institutions continue to bless gold, while Bitcoin’s multitude continues to stack digital gold. Tether, being a change between tradfi and crypto, is charging both ways.
Take food
Ties The denial is not just about clarifying the air in the Hotuber of YouTuber, it is about pointing out the confidence in its Bitcoin-First strategy. In any case, the movement to finance XXI with almost 20,000 BTC shows that Tether goes beyond the passive management of the balance sheet and actively sowing Bitcoin’s native infrastructure.
Call it paranoid preparation, call it brilliance of the balance; Anyway, Atadio is not turning its bitcoin. It strengthens more deeply in the hard money bunker.