BTC 24h trade volume is unusually high today, even for a time of high volatility. It's at just over $330 billion according to coingecko. That's the highest I've seen it in awhile. Any idea what's driving the high volume?
people are panicking.
if you see in social media platform like X, you'd see people clashing their own narrative of what bitcoin price gonna be, so it's no wonder some become repulsive, some want to reduce their exposure, some do the opposite and as a result increased trading volume.
from my observation whenever market is shaking like this volume always shoots up, you can see from the chart, volume always become really high whenever there's big dump or pump. maybe because limit order getting filled as well.