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Bitcoin Moves Nearly $9B On-Chain, Sets New All-Time Hourly High

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Updated by Kyle Baird
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As Bitcoin became extremely volatile yesterday, it breached its all-time high hourly transaction volume. In just one hour, the on-chain volume of Bitcoin was more than $8.9 billion.
While the blame falls on volatility for the movement, the actual reason might be completely different.

Pumps and Peels

The volatility seems to have merely coincided with exchange activity happening at the same time. Whale Alert, a popular service that signals large cryptocurrency transactions initially tweeted about these transfers. However, it later determined that these transfers were not worth notifying about to avoid spam. They were a part of the peeling process by exchanges. Peeling is the process where exchanges break up their cold wallets. They split their multi-million dollar wallets into smaller denominations to reduce security risks. In the event of a breach, splitting up can minimize losses. BTC Bitcoin Hodl Whale

Bitcoin Breaks the Market

Early yesterday, Bitcoin saw incredible volatility. In just an hour, Bitcoin gained more than $300, liquidating a massive amount of shorts. However, it failed to break the resistance at $7,500 and fell back below where it began, settling just below $7,200. Several forces were behind yesterday’s pump and dump. Bitcoin pumped immediately after $84 million worth of Tether was moved to OKEx. Some allege that the stablecoin was being used to manipulate the market. However, Gabor Gurbacs, a director at VanEck stepped in to defend the stablecoin. He said Tether should be appreciated for the services they built that other companies failed to provide, asking the community to stop the witch-hunt. While it is not clear if Tether was behind yesterday’s volatility, reports claim that it was a case of market manipulation. According to Bitcoin’s standard deviation, the probability of the price changing by more than 10% is just 0.02%. However, in the last 5 years, it occurred 66 times. Bitcoin having such massive short-range swings is not normal, and manipulation is likely to blame.
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Vignesh Selvasundar
With experience in journalism and marketing, Vignesh first came across Bitcoin in 2012. He quickly understood the importance of this revolutionary technology and later went all-in. He has been working exclusively with crypto for the last four years while travelling.
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