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Title: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: grondilu on February 13, 2011, 10:42:43 PM Check this out:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=bitcoin&date=ytd Certainly due to the slashdot article about BTC/USD parity. Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: Stephen Gornick on February 13, 2011, 11:01:57 PM An even more pronounced spike is found on Wikipedia:
http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Bitcoin (http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Bitcoin) Contributing to the buzz: Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity (http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity) Security Now 287: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPSwA2Itbs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPSwA2Itbs) Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2200705 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2200705) Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/fiern/dollar_parity_woohoo (http://) Tim Oreilly on Twitter: @timoreilly http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/36442135578279936 (http://) Even PayPal is talking about Bitcoin: https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devzone/blog/2011/02/12/fyi-virtual-currency-bitcoin-reaches-dollar-parity (https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devzone/blog/2011/02/12/fyi-virtual-currency-bitcoin-reaches-dollar-parity) Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: vanerj on February 14, 2011, 12:40:53 AM And episode #287 of Security Now http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm (http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm) mentioned BitCoin...
Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: Mike Hearn on February 14, 2011, 12:47:02 PM Does anyone know why Russia appears to be so much more interested in Bitcoin than other countries? We even have a Russian specific subforum here.
Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: Binford 6100 on February 14, 2011, 01:23:07 PM Does anyone know why Russia appears to be so much more interested in Bitcoin than other countries? We even have a Russian specific subforum here. Russia has a rich history of on-line currencies, bitcoin is just another chapter in that story. And lot of services are located in Russia that you'd rather pay for without providing your real name & personal id (via bank p.ex.) so they might be quicker at adopting bitcoin than the rest of the world in their own interest. Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: ploum on February 14, 2011, 01:44:35 PM I also like that Google Trends :
http://www.google.com/trends?q=flattr%2C+bitcoin&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0 Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: alkor on February 14, 2011, 05:20:21 PM Interestingly most of the google queries actually come from Russia, where the trading volume in bitcoins is relatively small.
Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: stakhanov on February 14, 2011, 06:32:34 PM The russians are using their botnets to generate half of the coins :)
Title: Re: HUGE spike in Google trends Post by: ribuck on February 14, 2011, 06:37:29 PM ...Russia, where the trading volume in bitcoins is relatively small. When I was trading at Bitcoin Market (where you see the PayPal addresses of the people you trade with), all of my trades except one were to .ru addresses. |