Fair point. I was going through the CMC top coins in top 100, and nearly all of the coins are either defunct or faded into extreme obscurity. Mostly Litecoin & DigiByte & Doge and maybe Peercoin and Feathercoin to an extent.

Given the nature of Tether, would it not be FUDded out of existence? Back in 2014 I would expect users to never use Tether since cryptocurrency as a whole was very niche and Bitcoiners were usually developers, no?