<p>Exchanges' order books are usually public.  See for instance <a href="https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD</a>.  The graph in the middle is a helpful visualization of depth.</p>

<p>I'm not going to quote any specific numbers here because they would be instantly obsolete.</p>

<p>Of course, there are lots of exchanges, so to get the "big picture" you'd have to aggregate their data.</p>

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Don't have enough points yet to upvote you.  Since bitcoin transactions can occur in fractions of a bitcoin, I'm trying to get some confirmation that these markets are not being manipulated.
AlRacoon
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<p>How do we know the size of the Bitcoin transactions?  How do we know that the price action is not being driven by a couple (or otherwise small group) of investors that are just flipping small fractions of Bitcoin back and forth?</p>

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How deep is the gold market? How do we know gold price is not a pump and dump? Its all people's belief.
Kang
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How deep is the Bitcoin market?
AlRacoon
# How deep is the Bitcoin market?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-14)

How do we know the size of the Bitcoin transactions? How do we know that the price action is not being driven by a couple (or otherwise small group) of investors that are just flipping small fractions of Bitcoin back and forth?

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> **username_1**: How deep is the gold market? How do we know gold price is not a pump and dump? Its all people's belief.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-12-14. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

Exchanges' order books are usually public. See for instance <https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD>. The graph in the middle is a helpful visualization of depth.

I'm not going to quote any specific numbers here because they would be instantly obsolete.

Of course, there are lots of exchanges, so to get the "big picture" you'd have to aggregate their data.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Don't have enough points yet to upvote you.  Since bitcoin transactions can occur in fractions of a bitcoin, I'm trying to get some confirmation that these markets are not being manipulated.  

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