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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Fake volume in exchanges
by
jmesfisher
on 01/08/2018, 14:46:35 UTC
Found an interesting article in which one guy did some datamining on some popular exchanges and their volumes:

https://medium.com/@sylvainartplayribes/chasing-fake-volume-a-crypto-plague-ea1a3c1e0b5e

Apparently a few of these giants are falsifying their volumes. Maybe because a higher market cap would make people think it's a more trustworthy exchange? I don't know if it's really worth going through all of that effort.

Would this have a major effect on the prices? I know we used to see huge differences in prices in the past, but now you won't see much more than a few percent here and there between exchanges.

interesting, but many of that volume is caused by bots... you just have no time to react, and your PC has no way how to display that on time ))) but yeah there are exchange that are really abusing with fake volume, my personal best is bitforex )))