Most of the cryptocurrency enthusiasts I have ever met only care about price increases and speculation. Which is why they don't like nasty Tether news getting any views.

Yes, that's why I put "actual" in there. In the crypto communities I know Tether was heavily criticized pretty much from it's very inception, not just more recently since it's getting bad press in the mainstream. But traders who who're in it for the money do seem to use it. Those people don't care about the tech, they often don't even understand what they're buying. They're speculators.