yep: the Tethers are being used for margin lending, so a small amount of Tether can drive the price up quite a ways. Particularly with wash trading, spoof order

yep: the Tethers are being used for margin lending, so a small amount of Tether can drive the price up quite a ways. Particularly with wash trading, spoof orders, tape-painting and other such shenanigans that are (rightly) banned on proper securities exchanges, but are de rigeur in Bitcoinland.