🚨 $1B Tether Move Just Broke Crypto Twitter… But Chill, It’s Not What You Think 🚨
Yeah, you saw the viral post with 400k+ views screaming:
“TETHER JUST APED $1B USDT INTO BTC AT THE BOTTOM!! 🚀🚀”
Let’s kill the FOMO real quick with actual facts:
✅ YES – Tether sent 1,000,000,000 USDT to Bitfinex ~16 hours ago
Biggest single transfer in their history. On-chain, undeniable.
❌ NO – This is NOT “Tether using treasury to buy the dip”
That narrative is straight copium. Tether has been buying BTC with 15% of profits every quarter since May 2023. Those buys are predictable, end-of-quarter moves to their cold wallets. Not random mid-month flexes.
❌ NO – USDT → Bitfinex doesn’t automatically = BTC purchase
They’ve done 1,516 USDT transfers to Bitfinex in 7 years. If every one was a “dip buy,” they’d own 1.5 million BTC by now 😂 (they have ~87.5k).
Current Tether BTC holdings:
87,556 BTC (~$7.6B at $87k BTC)
→ Zero change since the transfer.
Bottom line: Big transfer = real. “Tether just saved the market” = classic crypto hopium.
Facts over feelings. Always zoom out and check the wallets yourselves.
DYOR, don’t get rekt by rumors 🤝
