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by w-ll 3115 days ago
24 Hour Volume is north of 17 Billion.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

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Given the incentives involved (and history of exchanges, everywhere, before regulation) a good fraction of that is wash trading. (A better measure for the risk at hand is the effect of small out-of-market bids and offers on the overall price, i.e. how much it costs to move the price $1.)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/washtrading.asp

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