I agree. Besides, a major selling point of Bitcoin is an escape hatch from a government's monetary policy. Using fiat on top of BTC negates this benefit and still makes you vulnerable to a government's irresponsible monetary policy. Unless I'm missing something, this really doesn't excite me.
I think the original purpose of tether was for arbitrage trading. It wouldn't make sense to move bitcoin from one exchange to another if the purpose is to arbitrage bitcoin. This would give a way for arbitrage traders to step out of bitcoin into the dollar for transfer to another exchange.
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