For those of you keeping score at home, in the last 24 hours (presumably shortly after this article was posted):

* Bitcoin price dropped by 16%, from ~$19500 to ~$16500

* Tether "mined" $300M in new Tethers (which are NOT "fiat money", why would you think such a thing?).

* Bitcoin price started recovering to, currently ~$17200

I'm sure all of this is completely on the up-and-up, and the Mainstream is just blind to this amazing new world of finance.