This is new funding for new super yachts, houses, drugs and 1-day girlfriends. SEC wants to play politics with crypto and act as pesudo-enforcers, yet not one mention of USDT. Or perhaps their internal investigations about Tether will eventually come to light, in the near-future. FTX will be absolutely nothing compared to anything unraveling the true malicious nature behind Tether -- if there is anything. But the reality is, there's not 1 shred of evidence to support any of their backings are real. If a day comes were Tether is cracked down on, we will witness an event unlike anything we've ever witnessed since the inception of Bitcoin.
And if anyone is curious, what Tether does most likely is fraction reserve banking, like every successful bank. Meaning only 10% of USDT is backed by cash, 90% of their money is loaned out/diversified/invested. By law, they only required 10% real backing. The problem is unlike traditional banks, Tether has no one to report to other than the authorities/U.S. They are not a publicly traded company on the stock exchange, they are a private firm. So who knows what regulators behind the scenes know -- if anything at all? FINCEN? SEC? They've all must of looked into this shit by now since it is a very obvious target -- being the largest decentralized (loosely stated) "bank" of crypto.
This too was a good explanation of the validity of Tether
Those whale investors can not accumulate billions of dollars from the open market. It will require huge fees so when they want to invest in crypto they give money to stablecoin companies and they print stablecoin for them which eventually goes to bitcoin or eth mostly. It is not like tether can mint USDT as they wanted to. So printing USDT is positive news for the whole crypto industry because those USDT will go to other crypto project eventually. You are right about the future outcome of bitcoin markets, but it is not like clam raising as you have said generally. There will be lots of manipulation and downsides on the way to that rise.
Also, since the investigations by NYC ended without incident(?) most people put aside the question about USDT and concluded that Tether was safe; based on the conclusions of NY State and obviously their very heavy hand when it comes to regulating financial institutions.
More historical news compiled on Tether in another thread i made a while back:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60209650