There are also some speculations that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a subpoena towards Tether. The number of USDT tokens released to the market was 850 million thus taking a large protion of the crypto market. Crashing of USDT means no fiat backed tokens and a large portion of the market will be lost. My 2 cents.
Not sure if you understand how much money these exchanges make, a Japanese exchange just refunded 400 million dollars to those who lost out from the NEM hack, $400 million out of their own pocket.
Now Bitfinex, the ones responsible for this backing, are FAR FAR bigger than the Japanese exchange mentioned.
They will be just fine if audited.. they have the money to back the coins.
More FUD, no reason other than a well due correction.
Zhao Dong, a prominent Chinese early bitcoin adopter and shareholder in Bitfinex, recently posted on Weibo seeking to provide anecdotal evidence as to the integrity of Bitfinex and Tether’s financial reserves. The post claims that Zhao Dong and Lao Mao, the chief executive of Big.one, have witnessed first hand the balances of Bitfinex and Tether’s respective bank accounts during a meeting with Bitfinex’s chief financial officer, Giancarlo Devasini. The post alleges that the combined bank accounts of Tether and Bitfinex hold nearly $3 billion USD