Tether mints are not big news in the crypto world, happens all the time. Usually large ones signal fresh money flowing into the market, which means we go up for a bit.

Incidentally, being Canadian I have recently had my exchange options severely curtailed, leaving me mostly trading on Kraken now. They, along with most other Canadian crypto dealers I believe, are getting rid of USDT (Tether) in favor of simply USD pairings.

At first I thought this was annoying, but on second thought, it does reduce some counterparty risk.