China's National Committee of Experts on the Internet Financial Security Technology
said bitcoin trading volume in the country has reached CNY21.708 billion (US$ 3.193 billion) in May — about four times higher compared to April, China Tech News reported.
Not exact matches
Interactive Brokers
said in a release Monday that as of 9:15 a.m.,
bitcoin futures
trading in its accounts represented about half of Cboe's recorded
volume.
Interactive Brokers
said it handled just over half of the Cboe
bitcoin futures
trading volume on the first
trading day, which saw the highest daily
volume so far at 4,127 contracts in total across the products expiring in January, February and March.
He
said: «We think
trading fees will calm down the market, lower
trading volumes a bit, and allow a more healthy
bitcoin exchange market.»
Asian demand is
said to be driving the current
Bitcoin spike with Japanese Yen dominating
trading volume.
Bitcoin, an alternative to paper money in which
trades match up over computers without the involvement of banks or governments, is a natural fit for the Japanese,
said Mike Kayamori, the CEO of digital - currency exchange Quoine, the nation's third largest by
volume.
Roger Ver, the self - styled «
Bitcoin Jesus» is quoted in Coin Telegraph as
saying that «
Bitcoin Cash is the real
Bitcoin and will have the bigger market cap,
trade volume and user base in the future.»
With these caveats and disclaimers on
volume out of the way, what can be
said about
trading volume for
bitcoin this year, as we approach the end of 2013?
One exchange, OKCoin, inflated
volumes through so - called wash
trades, repeatedly
trading nominal amounts of
bitcoin back and forth between accounts, two former executives
said.
That being
said, the two publicly
traded vehicles that offer investors exposure to
bitcoin have also been seeing considerable
volume.
Trading volumes in BCH / KRW pair offered by Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea, have gone up by 42 percent in the last 24 hours and currently has the highest
volume at $ 1,296,300,000 ranking as number one market according to CoinMarketCap.This may be due to the fact that the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) Governor Choe Heung - sik
said Thursday that the watchdog is not considering digital tokens, such as
Bitcoin, as legitimate currency and thus has no plan to supervise transactions of the cryptocurrency.
Nordvig
said global daily
trading volume between the two largest digital currencies,
bitcoin and ethereum, into traditional currencies has multiplied eight times in the last year.