2013-05-16 The Genesis Block: Bitcoin Access Expanded to over 11 Million Users

[Kikkerdril]

Another interesting statistic to watch is the number of downloads for the Bitcoin client, for instance compare downloads this year:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/map?dates=2013-01-01%20to%202013-05-20

to downloads this month (beginning of May Bitcoin started to attract major interest in China when it aired on CCTV https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194937.0):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/map?dates=2013-05-01+to+2013-05-20

Also you could compare the last 2 links with this one to see what the Webmoney news does in Russia:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/map?dates=2013-05-16+to+2013-05-20

[aigeezer]

Another interesting statistic to watch is the number of downloads for the Bitcoin client, for instance compare downloads this year:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/map?dates=2013-01-01%20to%202013-05-20

to downloads this month (beginning of May Bitcoin started to attract major interest in China when it aired on CCTV https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194937.0):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/map?dates=2013-05-01+to+2013-05-20

Also you could compare the last 2 links with this one to see what the Webmoney news does in Russia:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/stats/map?dates=2013-05-16+to+2013-05-20

Fascinating. Thanks! I'm intrigued at the big surges, but also at the behavior of the "tiny" places, say with a count of 20 or less. There are dozens with these tiny but non-zero counts. What might this mean? Embassy staffers? Lone-wolf academics? Network testing? One libertarian or adolescent hacker per country?... Goofy speculation, I know, but the pattern seems odd to me - I can't make it fit my understanding of the way things work.

[prophetx]

woah china has more nodes than the US