Estimating China's Real Bitcoin Trading Volumes

Estimating China's Real Bitcoin Trading Volumes

Today, China's exchanges report 98% of global volume, a figure that would suggest a huge dominance by its markets. Unfortunately, we know that most of this volume is fake. Unlike the rest of the world, China-based exchanges are unique in that they do not charge fees on bitcoin trades. Instead they make money via withdrawal charges out of the exchange. Further, these fees reduce as your trading volume increases, so this incentivizes traders to bolster this figure by buying and selling from themselves at zero cost. Still, there's a ocean of data coming from the markets, and they hold hidden....


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