Utopia | Ep 1

Real Money

Tether is a crypto coin that holds up the entire cryptocurrency industry but no one has seen the money it claims to have in the bank. For every Tether that exists- and there are over 70 billion of them- a dollar should sit in a bank somewhere- but where? A little-known company that specialises in financial detective work has offered reporter Aleks Krotoski a million dollar bounty if she can find out.

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