Most of the comments above are assuming that Tether manages and discloses its reserves in good faith. Unfortunately, the facts are not compatible with Tether acting in good faith. Quite frankly, at this point Tether has enough red flags to start a communist revolution.
Tether have never managed to get an audit. Instead they have irregularly produced a series of attestations. None of these attestations constitute an audit, none of them have involved the big 4 accounting firms. The fact that Tether have had to make up new groupings such as āBig 5ā and āBig 12ā merely emphasises the fact that the Big 4 are not prepared to touch them.
I encourage people to consider how Tether would behave if they were solvent and committed to proving it. The most plausible explanation for their misdirection and opaqueness is that are in fact insolvent.
I would support changes to USDT parameters, but those changes must be based on a careful and critical analysis of the risk of Tether. The justifications provided for this eIP do not meet that threshold.