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Topic: "What started it"? - page 2. (Read 389 times)

legendary
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April 02, 2019, 10:19:29 AM
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So after looking into volume on the top exchanges, it looks like today's excitement may have begun in Japan.

Here's a line from Coincheck's minute-by-minute volume (as reported by BitcoinCharts):
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2019-04-02 04:28:00	465026	465598	465016	465419	7.68	3574735.98	465396.36

This is a small move in terms of price, but a fairly large trade for this particular exchange - about 7x the usual minute-by-minute volume.

This is followed a couple minutes later by high volume on Kraken (USD):
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2019-04-02 04:31:00	4184.3	4194.7	4184.3	4194	125.68	526358.37	4188.23
and Bitstamp:
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2019-04-02 04:31:00	4187.45	4200	4187.45	4200	138.17	579084.04	4190.95

And then the other exchanges. Most small exchanges see big volume bumps at 04:32:00, but feedback into Coincheck seems to happen comparatively fast; it begins at 04:31:00 too.

Could arbitrage from this big Coincheck trade have been the event that kicked off today's green candle? Or am I reading too much into this, and the trade at 4:28 was just a coincidence?
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