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The short life of top exchanges

On August 6, 2016, according to Coinmarketcap, the world’s top exchanges were OKCoin.cn, BtcTrade, Huobi, CHBTC, BTCC, Poloniex, BTC100, BTCBOX, itBit, and Kraken.

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Today, almost two years later, only two of them have remained in the top ten, Huobi and Kraken.

Four others, Poloniex, BTCBOX, BTCC and itBit, slipped into the top 50, while the others fell lower, were closed, or changed name and location: OKCoin, for example, became OKEx, moving from mainland China to Hong Kong.

Newcomers are Binance, Bitfinex, Upbit, Bithumb and HitBTC.

In less than two years, the scenario of cryptocurrency exchanges has changed completely. And, if you go back another 2 years, to 2014, the scenario would again be completely different.

In other words, the luck of top exchanges varies very quickly.

The exchange rate is higher than that of the currencies themselves: on average, the average life of an exchange is lower than that of a cryptocurrency.

In 2016, Coinmarketcap had 105 exchanges, while today it has as many as 11,080.

At that time, only 60% had a significant volume of at least $10,000 per day, while today we get 90% of the exchanges.

As of August 2016, out of the top 10 exchanges, just over $1 billion was exchanged in cryptocurrency per day. Today we have gone up to 10.6 billion.

Two years is not a lot, although in this area at the moment seem an eternity. Who knows what exchanges will take place in 2020, who will dominate the market, and what will be the volume of trading?

Marco Cavicchioli
Marco Cavicchioli
"Classe 1975, Marco รจ stato il primo a fare divulgazione su YouTube in Italia riguardo Bitcoin. Ha fondato ilBitcoin.news ed il gruppo Facebook "Bitcoin Italia (aperto e senza scam)".
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