Tether’s Burning Of 400M USDT Could Crash The Bitcoin Price

Tether’s burning of the 400 million USDT tokens could lead to a massive downtrend for the bitcoin price according to the twitter user Whale Alert as we are reading today in our altcoin news.

Many of the investors are now fearing that the token burn could crash the price of the number one cryptocurrency since just yesterday, the crypto community found out that the controversial cryptocurrency Tether will burn $400 million worth of USDT. The amount of burnt coins is relatively considerable since the total supply of USDT Is 4.1 billion currently. The tweet sparked fears that the move by tether could affect the Bitcoin price since there is a correlation between the USDT supply change and the bitcoin price movements. More of the USDT coins show there could be an increase in liquidity which usually fuels the bitcoin trading volume and acts as a bullish signal. It is important for the markets not to panic. Tether is simply moving out parts of its coin from Omni to Ethereum.

Tether’s burning of the 400 million USDT tokens have the ability to slash the Bitcoin price but the move is part of a swap to Ethereum. Interestingly, the Twitter user mentioned already that this move is a part of a swap and the corresponding burn on Omni still hasn’t happened. However, when the burn took place yesterday, Whale Alert didn’t make the connection and explain why this happened. Tether confirmed that the 400 million USDT burnings were a part of the swap. The problem is that Tether plays with the minting and burning hundreds of tokens just like that and this could seriously affect the bitcoin price.

As reported previously in some of the best cryptocurrency news sites, Tether Limited expands and is now cashing in on the sentiment because of the dangers thanks to the gloomy economy which is led by the ongoing US-China trade war which sends the investors choosing safe-haven assets such as Bitcoin. CNHT aims to remove the necessity of exchanging yuan each time when there is a need to purchase or sell bitcoins. It could also provide liquidity between the two currencies because the investors trust Tether for maintaining the 1:1 peg to yuan.