New Report Says Bitcoin Daily Trading Volumes Are Fake, So What’s The Real Number?

Bitcoin trading volumes have always surpassed expectations in the past. Last week, celebrations filled the community as the digital asset had reportedly seen more than $1 trillion transacted on the network so far. However, a new report claims that the trading volumes reported by exchanges may be inflated. The main number, they predict, to be much lower than what is being reported, especially on a daily basis. Reported Bitcoin Volume Fake A new analysis report from Forbes has come back with the conclusion that more than half of bitcoin’s daily reported volumes are fake. The report focuses on the reported volumes from across 157 crypto exchanges and found that the numbers from self-reported sources had greatly inflated the volume of bitcoin being transacted. Related Reading: Worldwide Crypto Ownership Cross 320 Million, Here Are The Countries Leading The Charge These exchanges usually report bitcoin daily volume according to their internal processes, which ends up being different across exchanges. An example given in the report was between CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko. While the latter had reported a BTC daily volume of $32 billion, the latter had reported $27 billion in trading volume for the same time period. Others, such as Nomics, had put the volume at $57 billion, and Messari had reported a volume of $5 billion. BTC recovers above $20,000 | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com This discrepancy is also seen across other ana...