I don't like using tether, but one needs at least one 'stable' value store per exchange to hedge all the swings. Hopefully one of the gold-backed tokens takes off to some degree of reliability. Until then, I don't see a way to trade a bunch of alts and avoid tether. It's especially convenient, unfortunately, for day Americans doing day trading since, technically, they are supposed to track any time they sell into USD. Technically...