USDT (Tether) for pharmacy payments — what worked for you?

LibrarianMeg said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

mike_nyc said:

Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this…

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

Closing the loop on my own question.

Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.