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Cute but no, the ratios are totally off. Gox was bigger than Coinbase is now relative to the share of trades. Gox traded more BTC in its brief history than any other organization possibly can again for the rest of human history. The whole market cap of Tether is a blip, and there are several liquidity pools on public chains that would sustain their value in a confidence collapse situation.

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Is this true? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox at most .5 billion was missing from Gox but from is described here a lot more can be lost from Tether if it goes black hole?

In dollars, almost certainly not. Maybe in number of BTC that traded hands?

Yes. The only yardstick to use. In 50 years the routine theft of billions may not even merit media attention.

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