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According to an analytic service Coinhills, the US dollar and the Japanese yen became the most popular fiat currencies for buying bitcoins.

As of December 25, 2018, the daily trading volume of the first crypto exceeded 1.5 million bitcoins. 49.22%, or more than 767 000 bitcoins, of them were bought for the American dollar that became the leader in trade against BTC.

The Japanese yen is on the second place. In particular, 46.47% of transactions of purchasing bitcoins were made with yens. A day earlier, on December 24, yen outperformed US dollar by one percent.

The remaining global currencies are lagging far behind — during the day, they consisted about 4% of the total trading volume with bitcoin, which is just 67 000 BTC. The third and fourth places are taken by the South Korean won and euro, but each of them does not reach even 2% of the total trading volume. They are followed by the Polish zloty, the British pound, and the Russian ruble.

According to CoinMarketCap, on crypto exchanges, bitcoin is most often bought for other digital currencies, mainly stablecoins. For example, on the two leading trading platforms, Binance and OKEx, the most popular means for buying BTC is the Tether stablecoin (USDT).