The volumes from a large crowd that can also include institutional can very easily be large.
A recent example is the Saudi Aramco IPO, particiption in that IPO used Saudi retail investors and Saudi payment rails and resulted in $25bn in purchases. That one country’s internal financial system was able to handle it and there was just that much participation.
Tether doesn't have the transparency we will want. Choose a different product for that reason alone, and there are options now.
But assuming the worst, out of the universe of assumptions, is just as useless as assuming the best. The western world says “all this is improbable so lets assume it is impossible”, the eastern world doesn't seem to care and there are examples where much larger sums of money could show that Tether’s growth is not improbable or impossible.
The point is that $30bn of deposits (whether some of that is counted incorrectly on multiple blockchains) is not noteworthy enough on its own to reinforce your conclusion. Many random brokers have that. If they had a stablecoin that was minted upon deposit, you would see the same thing. And here, institutions also use Bitfinex and $30bn is actually then a reflection of how small the crypto markets are.
> ... yet you are trying to convince us there is people depositing 800m daily into bitfinex?
800m daily would have meant 300 bn USDTs created in a year. They create 30 bn in a year, no 300 bn. It's huge but you are one order of magnitude off no?
But Paolo himself post that all the usdt minted is 'tron replenish' everytime whale alert tweets about 800,000,000 USDT frwshly minted
So, basically, in your intentions to defend USDT you are even contradicting what its own CEO says...
It's also funny how tesla 1.5b investment and microstrategy few millions buy are to be 'celebrated' as big and huge, yet you are trying to convince us there is people depositing 800m daily into bitfinex?