First time heard about bitcoin was in late 2013- start of 2014 when the price reached 1k$ and this thanks to tv channels which made many reports about it, well didn't joined the wave at that time but i started using bitcoin few months later.
I think many people followed the same path.
Nice free ads for bitcoin and another wave of users will join the party soon
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This pattern is correct. There is nothing more convincing and tempting for people than bitcoin high price. I expect that we will be a lot of new users here on bitcointalk soon.
I have no idea how many new account are being registered everyday, but during these price spikes it must be really high number.