In the consequent 2 weeks after the big recent Bitcoin dump we have been witnessing drastic volatility between 10000 and 12000 USD. It is as if the market was failing to consolidate to a specific price, failing to go higher or lower above these limits. The whales seem to have fed up with this volatility since it does not allow them to buy for a sufficiently low price - for them. As a last resort they decided to use their main card - the Tether situation, which in fact was already well known to everybody since the beginning of December, but was not yet focused at.