One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble
Having been through that bubble, I'm fairly confident FOMO had a huge effect. Every single person I know was asking how to buy some. You can even see it on Google Trends[1].It's possible that the very first initial bump was manipulated (and crypto is definitely manipulated each and every day...), but the crazy increase afterwards probably wasn't due to a single entity.1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...