Cryptocurrencies
It’s Getting Harder to Pump Up Prices in Cryptocurrency Markets
- Tether has been alleged to prop up Bicoin prices in 2017
- That link appears gone, with no affect on smaller coins either
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It’s getting hard to pump amid the dump in the $209 billion cryptocurrency market.
At least that appears to be the case when you look at Tether, one of the most-traded digital assets and also one that’s allegedly been used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin. Over half a billion dollars of Tether has been created in August alone, a move that in the past would have often coincided with a rally in Bitcoin, yet the larger cryptocurrency has fallen 15 percent.