How do you know it's tether funding it?
The reason nostr:nprofile1qqsgeksa4tajm7x673gq2v7t56dkgkh6pjhhzdhrgxlpke4za8jmmkqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqetk0p4 hates Nostr is because he's being paid by Tether to develop a competing project. Simple as that.
The same goes for the rest of the Twitter influencers, the reason they all hate Nostr is because they're being paid by Elon.
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Because I, and Synonym, publicly announced it every time it was ever appropriate to mention it.
Like, since before nostr existed, for example.