What bothers me more than anything in this isn't the existence of Tether and the suspicious behavior of Tether/Bitfinex players...

It's that Bittrex and others are attempting to become mainstream and they've accepted these USDT since forever, and they continue to accept them well after the suspicions were public.

This is a black stain on the exchanges. It also personally makes me cynical of the entire space. I moved my mainstream coins off of Bittrex and back into GDAX where it seems safer.

<rant warning> Why can't profitable exchanges like Bittrex and Kraken self-regulate?? Over and over again the invisible hand of the market is proved to be eclipsed by the visible hammer of the regulator (which can't come soon enough, by the way). </rant>