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Real XRP trading volume is 93% less than what CMC claims

Deception runs rampant within the cryptocurrency trading industry. Unethical bitcoin exchanges openly allow wash trading, a shady practice long ago expunged from mainstream finance. Scrubbing out these fake trading volumes to discern the true nature of the crypto economy produces astonishing results.

TRUE RIPPLE TRADING VOLUME JUST $82 MILLION

Ripple (XRP), the third-largest cryptocurrency with a $13.7 billion market cap, allegedly boasts $1.2 billion in 24-hour trading volume as of the time of writing, according to widely-used data aggregator CoinMarketCap. However, OpenMarketCap – which only aggregates data from exchanges that don’t allow washing trading and other shady practices – puts XRP turnover at just $81.7 million. That’s a shockingly illiquid figure and suggests that up to 93% of reported ripple volume is fake.

Apart from ripple, other top coins plagued by fake volumes include:

Litecoin – $106 million real volume versus $2.9 billion reported

EOS – $121 million real volume versus $2.9 billion reported

Bitcoin Cash – $146 million real volume versus $1.6 billion reported

The real winner from the fake volume purge? Bitcoin, whose share of overall crypto trading volume balloons to 48% from 29% after removing the suspicious data.

Ripple Plagued by Fake Trades – How Crypto Purge Vindicates Bitcoin, CCN, Apr 14
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