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This is the elephant in the room. It definitely seems that something is up when $100M in tokens flow into exchanges and the price immediately jumps.

I am trying to find moderate-resolution market data to evaluate the effect that Tether issuances have had on prices. Does anyone know of a public data source that's higher resolution than 24h?

I think https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed might have this data. You could try asking them.

I simultaneously hate them and am mildly impressed they have managed to print over a billion dollars.

It’s over 2 billion now, and growing.

why are people accepting them?

They've printed 850 million in the last three weeks alone. If they get away with it then... wow.

But yeah, it looks like blatant manipulation - the price of bitcoin approaches $10K, quick, let's print another 100 million!

Relevant recent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16152050

Also bitfinex'ed writes extensively on manipulation:

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/