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Why the Twitter reflex, new USDT minted, therefore the market pumps, doesn't survive contact with the data Every few weeks it happens. Tether mints a few hundred million or a billion USDT. Someone screenshots the mint transaction. The caption writes itself: 'They just printed $1B USDT. Bullish.' The tweet gets traction because the logic feels obvious, more dollars in the system, more dollars available to buy Bitcoin, price goes up. It's a clean story. It's also not what the data shows. 1. The cl