Each one of them only attests to Tether's assets and liabilities for one day. BDO is the third firm it's worked with over that time.īe smart: One observation jumps out about each of these reports if you read them closely.dollar since 2014, but it has only gotten consistent about doing attestations of its assets since March 2021. Zooming out: Tether has been issuing stablecoins pegged to the price of the U.S. BDO put out Tether's second attestation for 2022, for June 30 - and only for June 30.And yet there have always been question marks around its underlying assets.ĭriving the news: Tether has brought on a new accountant, BDO Italia, a part of BDO Global, one of the largest networks of accountants in the world.Why it matters: Tether is the third biggest cryptocurrency in the world, with a $67.5 billion market cap, and it's the most widely traded against the biggest cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum. Then a woman uses a needle to inject drugs in front of Dahlia.So far, Tether has only given the market transparency around exactly four days each year.
At a meeting with gang leaders, someone passes marijuana to Dahlia, who refuses to smoke it.
Dahlia and her friends watch helplessly as the wire kills him.Ī girl in her early twenties drinks a glass of white wine at a café. In one instance, a boy is caught in razor wire. Resulting deaths and injuries are briefly described. Dahlia’s team goes head to head with a terrorist group, exchanging fire with them. Groups of vigilantes and terrorists wreak havoc on the population. Dahlia makes a comment about having craved her own death before out of a simple desire to “move to the next plane” of existence. Hard times have fallen on humanity and many have died from lost hope. It’s inappropriate and another man calls him out for it.Ī priest oversees a funeral. One reference to a man putting his hand between a waitress’s legs. Strong profanity used with moderate frequency. Monster has been on my list for a long time, so it’s possible I’ll give that one a read and reevaluate this story again. This is the first book by Myers that I’ve read, and most of the reviews I skimmed through recommend his other books over this one. The group assembles with a vague goal in mind, which keeps things a bit wishy-washy until well into the tale. I think I would have liked this book more if there had been a stronger forward push carrying the story along. They do make progress, but not in the ways they necessarily expected, and ultimately, they don’t accomplish their goal. I expected a lot of fast-paced action and suspense, and there was definitely tension building as the story unfolded, but this is more about unique teens dialoguing together over a plan to stop the bad guys from running the show. We may not agree on things, but in order to succeed at saving the world, we have to work together and trust each other. To me this also echoed the same message of value and equality about the characters’ ethnic backgrounds: we all bring value. In the same way, the team Dahlia joins also shows a lot of intellectual diversity, showcasing different areas of expertise and how they bring a unique perspective to each problem the group faces. The cast of characters shows a lot of racial diversity and delivers it with authenticity. What I liked about the story was that it pulled a lot of different elements together. I wonder if revealing the fact that the narrator is a girl was thought to be off-putting to potential male readership? Pure speculation. Based on the description posted there and on Goodreads, I thought this story would be more like X-Men teens meets The Net (1995, Sandra Bullock, etc.) Now that I’ve read the story, I get where the blurb was going, but I’m not sure it’s the best representation of the tale itself. I requested an ARC for this book via NetGalley but didn’t get it. The team knows he must be stopped, but taking him on might simply be playing into the bigger plans of C-8. But just as Dahlia and her team stumble onto something big, a big-shot terrorist comes to town. She joins other teen prodigies in brainstorming a strategy to take down C-8, a group of corporations that have the world in a stranglehold. Then two boys offer her a chance to make a difference. On her own in a rundown apartment, she waits for a way to make her life mean more. Since her mother’s death, Dahlia has simply survived. Published: SeptemAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads