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Bitcoin C2C - Volume

As of
Correlation Score
64.33%

C2C (Customer-to-Customer) Volume aims to track the amount of BTC exchanged between individuals. This metric should exclude all transactions to and from: merchants, exchanges, coin swap services, randomizers …

The algorithm infers institutional addresses using this 3 metrics:

  • transactions frequency
  • time the accounts do a high amount of transactions
  • amount spent and received

Assumptions made:

  • High transactions frequency is a good indicator of an account that does programmatic transactions.
  • Business accounts seem to be active every day or follow a pretty strict activity pattern.
  • Businesses tend to move a lot more money than Customers.

*Note

  • Only On-chain data was used to compute this metric. Transactions executed off-chain on Lightning Network are not being taken into account.
  • Customers addresses are all addresses that the algorithm did not infer as Business addresses.
  • Historical data is calculated using the bitcoin USD price at the transaction date.