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Quote from: KLONE::Vader on March 14, 2016, 05:28:07 PM

Am i the only one wondering about people compare 24h trading volume between btc and eth? if u look at coinmarketcap the btc trading volume is calculated only with btc/fiat pairs and eth trading volume is calculated with every pair. especially the eth/btc pair is only in the eth volume. so apples and pies??

ETH trading volume is more than a half as BTC volume. It would be 100 dollar/ETH this year.

did you read my post or did you stop reading after my first sentence?

Yes, because there is no BTC/BTC pair. In other words, BTC is a FIAT too.

What a confusing interaction with poorly worded sentences that are ambiguous. If people would spend just a few more seconds checking that what they've written makes sense there'd be less back and forth querying as to what each person means in their responses.

Just to take your initial posting KLONE::Vader and try to understand what you're saying:

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Am i the only one wondering about people compare 24h trading volume between btc and eth? if u look at coinmarketcap the btc trading volume is calculated only with btc/fiat pairs and eth trading volume is calculated with every pair.

So you're querying whether you're the only one thinking about the aspect of the comparison between BTC and ETH that's failing to take into account ETH's volume being across BTC/ETH and ETH/FIAT pairs?

So within the context of that question then, what do you mean by this?

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especially the eth/btc pair is only in the eth volume.

That appears to be contradicting your previous assertion "...eth trading volume is calculated with every pair." (or I'm misinterpreting your statement there).

Then this:

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so apples and pies??

Again, ambiguity means I'm not sure what you're saying. The regular use of the expression when someone's pointing out that a comparison isn't valid because the two things being compared are fundamentally different is generally "apples and oranges". Is that what you're getting at with "apples and pies"? (or is the apple in the pie so it's something with nested levels of deeper complexity? Ha!)

I'm not sure but I would expect CoinMarketCap treat each and every trade as part of the volume, but with the distinction that BTC only includes FIAT trades as it sits at the top. So trades in ETH/USD (or other FIAT) and trades in ETH/BTC all add up to make the volume for ETH. In BTC though, you can't trade for BTC (obviously), only FIAT so yes (of course) BTC volume only consists of BTC/FIAT trades.

I don't think that means anything in particular in terms of ETH stats being overly different to BTC stats. A trade is a trade. When we look at BTC volume we don't go and get all the alt-coins' volume and add that onto BTC too; only the BTC/FIAT trade pairs are measured.