RE: TETHER | Market Cap Jumps US$600,000,000 Over Night - Price At A New All Time Low
I've seen many people state that they feel BTC will tank if (more likely, when) Tether comes crashing down, but I don't feel as though this is correct.
When looking at Tether's market cap compared to the total market cap of all cryptos, it is a rather small percentage. According to CoinMarketCap, the total market cap of all crypto is about $557 Billion. Tether is currently sitting at $2.2 Billion. (1.) When we compare this to Mt.Gox, it was handling about 80% of the total BTC trading volume on a daily basis (based on what I can recall). At this time, BTC was the primary crypto being "traded"/used. Due to this, I think that Tether could make a small impact on the crypto market, but I certainly don't think it would be much worse than Gox.
In saying this, I am completely open to hearing as to why everybody feels this will be worse than Gox.
Note: I have gathered some of this viewpoint by studying videos from individuals such as AltCoinBuzz, LouisThomas, and some others. This is NOT solely my original views on this subject.
Source (1): https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
Tether is still a huge percentage of net inflows into crypto. Tether being used by all of the wash trading and spoofing exchanges means that the power of each tether used for such purposes is amplified and leads to much more price action than would be seen on any decently regulated exchanges. It's going to be much worse than Mt. Gox when tether explodes.
I don't follow your logic. If Tether is all the bad things you say, and it may be, then having Tether washed out as a fraud or otherwise is a good thing. Same as when BitConnect got shut down recently. It has to help crypto market to have the shady coins wash out.
Not only will 2+billion get knocked off the market cap, but it will also be extremely bad publicity for the cryptosphere in general.