What is not in doubt is that CZ is supposedly one of the most credible faces of crypto.
You must be reading too much crypto mainstream articles. CZ iz by no means a prominent, or credible figure. Take his involvement in FTX drama as an example.
I don't like the SEC but CZ is not a clean guy. He's making a lot of money from listings and he lists all the shitcoins that pump when the news of them being lister comes out and then bleed to eventually be reduced into nothing and delisted.
How much harm do you think a Binance implosion would cause Bitcoin? Is the US a big threat to the coin market?
It depends what people holding bitcoin on Binance would do. If they'd dump it all the price would crash, but they could also move it out of the exchange without selling.
The honeybadger will still be there doing its thing. In 2020 the price crashed and in 2021 made a new high like it was nothing.