The 24-hour trading volume for BTC is pretty crazy today, especially considering how volatile the market is. It's over $330 billion according to coingecko. I haven't seen it this high in ages. Anyone have thoughts on what's causing this surge in volume?
when some hacker group is laundering funds on one exchange they usually spin the same lump of funds in circles several times
other innocent users see a change of market price on the exchange doing laundering and they see an opportunity to take the price difference between the exchanges to make a profit before the markets re-sync to be same prices.. so they too move funds around
EG within one exchange, arbitrage of the market pairs
[ETH:BTC] -> [BTC:USD] - [USD:ETH] repeat [ETH:BTC] -> and so on
EG arbitrage exchange reserves
exchange A exchange B exchange A
[BTC:USD↓] ->stablecoin-> [USD↑:BTC] ->stablecoin-> [BTC:USD↓]
so although you might think its alot of new users just making one order each but just alot of new users.. or one big mega whale, but
..its actually a small group of regular users just taking advantage of a situation over the last few days to make a profit and repeat it until the opportunity dies down
Maybe it is the time zone, I see the trading volume as normal since when bitcoin has been fall in price. Today's trading volume is $69.25 billion. Although today is not yet over. Yesterday's trading volume was $64.6 billion. Day before yesterday's volume was $92.1 billion. It can be more or less.
I wouldn't worry or give too much weight to the volume metric. For as long as centralized exchanges dominate the volume metric, it's a hard metric to trust. The day decentralized exchange data is all that is taken into account, is the day we can have a bit more faith in that metric (as on-chain data can back the figure).
And as you can see it's liquidity as well, as the price goes down below $80k for a long time. And probably that's the reason as there are a lot of movements, but it's obvious that it is being dominated by the sellers.
Nevertheless, this is just one metrics, and I'm not sure if trading volume could be a good gauge as well. It just shows that there could be a lot of activity behind, unfortunately, it's not on the buying side but more of investors pushing the sell button for now.
people are panicking.
if you see in social media platform like X, you'd see people clashing their own narrative of what bitcoin price gonna be, so it's no wonder some become repulsive, some want to reduce their exposure, some do the opposite and as a result increased trading volume.
from my observation whenever market is shaking like this volume always shoots up, you can see from the chart, volume always become really high whenever there's big dump or pump. maybe because limit order getting filled as well.
I notice but I'm not panicking because I feel it has been following this trends for a while now, the up and down movement so there's nothing new, if one panics they will be forced to sell out their Bitcoin at a very low rate. Meanwhile seeing this high trade volume I think this is the start it might possibly have a change in the gig volume rate we can't tell.