The renewed institutional interest in cryptocurrency sent Bitcoin
surging to a new 12-month high, with its price jumping above $31,300 in
June. Although BTC lost some of its gains in the last week of the month,
it still finished the first half of 2023 with an impressive 85% growth,
putting it on track for its best annual performance since 2020. The
world’s largest and most expensive cryptocurrency also hit an impressive
trading volume in the six months of the year.
According to data presented by BitcoinCasinos.com [1], Bitcoin’s trading
volume hit over $4.2trn in the first half of the year.
March Saw the Biggest BTC Monthly Trading Volume of $1.2T, 60% more than
in April, May, and June
After a significant slowdown in December 2022, the last month of one of
the hardest years for the entire crypto industry, the global crypto
trading volume spiked in January, with all major cryptocurrencies seeing
double and triple-digit month-over-month growth. The CoinMarketCap data
show Bitcoin’s trading volume hit $950.6bn that month, up from $420.1bn
in December, ranking as the second most-traded digital coin in the
crypto space.
But after beginning 2023 on a positive note and bringing some
long-awaited optimism to the market, Bitcoin’s price and monthly trading
volume significantly dropped the following month. Statistics show BTC
trading volume hit $686.2bn in February, or 27% less than a month
before.
That all changed in March, the best month for BTC trading in the first
half of the year. Bitcoin’s price climbed 21% and hit above $28,000 that
month, while its trading volume jumped 73% month-over-month and hit
almost $1.2trn. Tether, usually the most-traded crypto, saw $1.17trn in
trading volume in March.
However, April brought another downturn, with all the largest cryptos
seeing their trading volumes plunge that month. Statistics show
Bitcoin’s monthly trading volume sank by almost $700bn month-over-month
to only $492.9bn in April. After slipping to $443.5bn in May, BTC
trading volume rose to $508.9bn in June, remaining 60% below the peak in
March.
H1 Trading Volume Down by $845B Year-over-Year
The CoinMarketCap data also showed that Bitcoin trading volume in the
six months of the year is still significantly lower than in the year-ago
period. The crypto space saw nearly $5.12trn worth of BTC trades between
January and June 2022, or $845bn less than in the first half of this
year.
While March was the top month for Bitcoin trading in H1 2023, last year
was May, with nearly $1.09trn worth of BTC trades. April and June 2022
also saw significantly stronger BTC trading activities than the same
months this year, while trading volumes reported in January and February
2022 remained slightly below this year’s levels.
