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It's difficult to determine the real volume of BTC transactions because of the structure of the Bitcoin Algorithm.

Bitcoin transactions have two outputs. In order to send a fragment of money, you need to create one output for the fragment, and the remaining output to put the "change" into your own wallet.

For example, if you have a wallet with 10,000 BTC, and you send 1 BTC to someone else, there will be two "outputs" - consisting of 1BTC and another with 9,999 BTC. An external observer won't (easily) be able to determine if this was a transaction of 1BTC, or 9,999 BTC.

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