Bitcoin is not the most-used cryptocurrency in the world but a controversial one tops the list and it’s shocking

Bitcoin is seen as the most widely used cryptocurrency. In fact, when people talk about crypto, Bitcoin comes to mind, and this is how closely it has been associated with this modern-day currency.

This is because most people who invest or operate a business use this currency, but alt least that is what most people think. They believe that Bitcoin accounts for the biggest percentage of all the digital-asset world’s market value; however, the latest report shows that this is not the case.

The world’s most-used digital money is not Bitcoin

Based on the list published by CoinMarketCap.com via Bloomberg Crypto, it turned out that Bitcoin is not the most-used cryptocurrency but Tether. As stated, despite its controversial history, it bested Bitcoin in dollar trading volume, making it the world’s largest digital currency

The data collected by the CoinMarketCap show that Tether tops the daily and monthly trading volume, emerging as the highest out of all the available tokens. It was noted that although Tether has smaller capitalization compared to most cryptocurrencies, it still managed to become the world’s most popular.

The report added that the first time Tether’s volume outperformed Bitcoin was in April, and since then, it continued to surpass it by recording around $21 billion per day. Tether beat out Bitcoin by as much as $3.5 billion.

How Tether topped the list

Tether’s increase in volume may have resulted from the way traders treat the cryptocurrency. A lot of traders use Tether because it can be easily transferred to crypto exchanges since there is no need for it to go through the traditional banking system. It was said that this made the said digital currency an attractive substitute to the dollar.

“If there is no Tether, we lose a massive amount of daily volume -- around $1 billion or more depending on the data source,” Bloomberg quoted said Lex Sokolin, global financial technology co-head at ConsenSys as saying. “Some of the concerning potential patters of trading in the market may start to fall away.”

Cryptocurrency experts stated that Tether is most popular in China and other Asian countries. It is said to be in really good standing in most regions in Eastern Asia.