Bitfinex going full retard +$450 premium. With massive bankrun and remaining underwater shorts open with no liquidity to upside, they might go insolvent and ruin their exchange. This has consequences for all tether exchanges, like Binance, Bittred, Poloniex and the like.
At good conscious, we can't recommend to stay at this exchange or even stay in this market any longer in general. Debt might be unpayable at this point and socialized losses are not uncommon.
"Full stop" crypto exchanges exit scam in motion like we witnessed at MtGox. No buyvol on fiat exchanges, while Bitfinex drives entire market up. Nobody trading tether, but bots with no liquidity for whales to exit gracefully.
If ever comes out that crypto exchanges are behind the manipulation themselves, this crypto market is finished. It doesn't take a rocket science to see whose behind the manipulation on sentiment and price. If ever related to criminality, expect a no tolerance crackdown. Exchanges are just a tool for what seems always the same people behind them who got in at < $1, who owns the most supply. They couldn't manipulate the PM market as they can with crypto and look how the counterparty has cleaned up that space. Be careful out there, dump to new lows will come, reversal shouldn't take longer than 11 days.
The greed is unreal and the results of driving the market up can have unforeseen consequences, like the prohibition on margin trading for retail and a bad name for what seems most people involved behind the scenes are libertarians and anarchists, which would be defeat of a grander idea in magnitude, namely the counterarguments for their philosophy for regulators to say: "See, you cannot trust or give freedom to exchanges to self regulate, so we will protect you [from your own for your own good]". In other words, the argument of freedom to exploit the gullible for self benefit will most likely be used in this context, results which would punish even good actors in the space.
You think they can't regulate this space worldwide? Think again.
This has happened before with p2p filesharing which has almost been totally destroyed within 2 decades for a centralized solution (i.e. Netflix), yet pundits keep pushing this crypto currency agenda with almost the same lineair timeline of evolution as before, it's actually quite astonishing that people do not see the obvious.