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Exchange trade volume in 2021

Dollar trading volume on major bitcoin exchanges, daily.

Exchange trade volume opened 2021 at $606.52M (January 1, 2021) and closed at $266.89M (December 31, 2021), down 56.0%. The high was $3.19B on May 20, 2021 and the low $119.38M on July 19, 2021.

Exchange trade volume, month by month in 2021

MonthMonth end
January 2021$559.01M
February 2021$399.91M
March 2021$505.53M
April 2021$579.65M
May 2021$329.08M
June 2021$385.14M
July 2021$484.27M
August 2021$243.70M
September 2021$221.22M
October 2021$226.33M
November 2021$367.83M
December 2021$266.89M

How much bitcoin changed hands on the exchanges blockchain.com tracks each day. Volume peaks with volatility, at tops and at capitulations, and dries up in the long quiet stretches after a crash.

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Also in 2021: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price

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