Where Bitcoin has been googled the most?

[TeslaWatt.com]

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It's ironic that the No. 1 nation on the list accepted Bitcoin as a legal tender, while in the second Bitcoin is not accepted by the government and actually is banned in bank transactions. This goes to show that the while government acceptance helps to make citizens more receptive of Bitcoin, the citizens can choose to adopt it regardless.

I do not know much about the other countries on the list, I have read that Switzerland is friendly to Bitcoin. And in Canada, there was an incident recently where the gov't was freezing accounts, could that play a part in the search boasts?

[ajochems]

The bitcoin was the huge investment tool in the world for now.So their are no doubt about the mostly search one in the google. The Russia had used the bitcoin lot for the transaction with the export goods.This is enough for the Russian to search the government using mode of transaction.The new people was get into the investment of bitcoin every day.This cause the bitcoin to survive for a decade.

[Kakmakr]

It does make sense that the word "Bitcoin" has been Googled the most by the El Salvadorian people, because their government forced a law on them that included a technology that influenced their daily lives and that most of them knew virtually nothing about.

It is also not strange that the Nigerians are very curious about this technology, because Nigeria are perceived as the "Scam Capitol" of the world. We know Bitcoin's pseudo anonymity provide some hiding place for criminal activities, so some of these people are actively looking for a payment method that cannot be traced. 

[roslinpl]

Since Nigeria is the developing country,they will look the new technology for the earning.It’s good to hear,Nigerian are very eager to the technology.I had seen the Nigerian was the second nation who had googled the bitcoin,it was very interesting one.The government of the El Salvador should move the bitcoin as the soft corn in their economy.This forcing to people will not works anymore.

[TheNineClub]

This is interesting because it's all over the place. I was expecting maybe lesser developed countries to be more interested, but that also goes hand in hand with how many people have access to the internet in those countries. I can't really make much out of this besides the fact that this diversity shows us that crypto is attracting people from all spheres and classes, and that's a good thing.

[glendall]

It's normal to see a ranking where Elsavador is in the first position, because Elsavador has legalized bitcoin and its people are trying to find info about Bitcoin so they don't experience errors in transactions.
so that could be the main reason why so many searches occur in elsavador

[Rikafip]

It is also not strange that the Nigerians are very curious about this technology, because Nigeria are perceived as the "Scam Capitol" of the world. We know Bitcoin's pseudo anonymity provide some hiding place for criminal activities, so some of these people are actively looking for a payment method that cannot be traced.  

I am not so sure that's the main reason for Nigeria being so high on the list. AFAIK, Nigeria has one of the biggest percentage of the unbanked people in the world so of course cryptocurrencies are a way for many to pay everyday stuff, hence such popularity. 

I mean, using your logic that would make countries like Slovenia, Switzerland and Austria scam paradise as well and if you check the crime stats you will see that those are some of the most secure countries in the world.

This is interesting because it's all over the place. I was expecting maybe lesser developed countries to be more interested, but that also goes hand in hand with how many people have access to the internet in those countries. I can't really make much out of this besides the fact that this diversity shows us that crypto is attracting people from all spheres and classes, and that's a good thing.

This list comes from Google trends, and the way its calculated is that it measures the popularity of specific search relative to all the other searches so its not really important how many people have access to the internet. This is how it looks when it comes to top 5

Values are calculated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 is the location with the most popularity as a fraction of total searches in that location, a value of 50 indicates a location which is half as popular. A value of 0 indicates a location where there was not enough data for this term.

Note: A higher value means a higher proportion of all queries, not a higher absolute query count. So a tiny country where 80% of the queries are for "bananas" will get twice the score of a giant country where only 40% of the queries are for "bananas".

[Lanatsa]

This is interesting because it's all over the place. I was expecting maybe lesser developed countries to be more interested, but that also goes hand in hand with how many people have access to the internet in those countries. I can't really make much out of this besides the fact that this diversity shows us that crypto is attracting people from all spheres and classes, and that's a good thing.

There's no such thing about criteria's  on what countries should be the ones who do have the right on making searches.You could really anticipate that it would be on developing countries but surprisingly to see on the list

seeing that there are top or rich countries are really that involved and its good to see in about with the recognition which we are really that needing.

These results do really shows that recognition and adoption is on the move or really that increasing as years passing by.

[Husires]

Can you provide us with the data source so that we know how to calculate and then determine whether these values are real or biased:

• Population vs. research percentage: The population density varies between countries, as 1 million represents half of the population of a country, while it represents less than 10% in a second country.
• Search Vocabulary vs. Other Vocabulary: Were the most common words in a country searched for?
• Research period: When this data was taken.
• Correlation of that period to the price of bitcoin: the price of bitcoin when the research was conducted.
  

All of the above factors affect the searches and the results received from them.

[Rikafip]

Can you provide us with the data source so that we know how to calculate and then determine whether these values are real or biased:

As I said in my previous post, data source for that graphic is Google Trends (something that OP probably should have mentioned) so you might wanna check it out for yourself and it also has an explanation how they calculate the numbers. Here is the link for the last 7 days but you can adjust for any time frame you want https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=Bitcoin

[Welsh]

It's ironic that the No. 1 nation on the list accepted Bitcoin as a legal tender, while in the second Bitcoin is not accepted by the government and actually is banned in bank transactions. This goes to show that the while government acceptance helps to make citizens more receptive of Bitcoin, the citizens can choose to adopt it regardless.

I'd expect people that are being suppressed to have even more interest in escaping that. Its been proven multiple times in the past, and I believe it was Edward Bernays' biggest message overall which he basically said not to limit the people outright, but instead give them a choice while pumping out propaganda to influence them.

Outright banning Bitcoin isn't effective it would be much better to do it like the West does; allow it, regulate it, but pump out stories which might not exactly have any truth to them. For example, we've seen it recently where there's basically been a barrage of news stories on how energy inefficient Bitcoin is, and how it's the leading contributor, which is absolutely nonsense, but I have seen it in the titles of a few poor news sources.

Before clicking on this thread, I was expecting countries from Africa to rank pretty highly not only because its banned in some of those areas, but for me Bitcoin is the best opportunity to escape corruption, as well as the rat race of earning pennies, while in the long run those earnings being mitigated by rising inflation.

[hd49728]

Nations with highest figures of Googling in their search don't mean that they have biggest Bitcoin communities.

Because there are barriers from searching for information to actually take it, feel good about it, and decide to invest in Bitcoin. You can compare it with stats for Bitcoin node distribution for example.

https://www.bitrawr.com/bitcoin-node-map

[Welsh]

Nations with highest figures of Googling in their search don't mean that they have biggest Bitcoin communities.

Quite possibly the opposite. El Salvador's increase could be just because a lot of people wasn't aware of Bitcoin before the recent news. Then the other countries could be just looking for information on it, rather than already being part of a "Bitcoin community" as you put it.

At the end of the day there's no significance on why, trends are trends, and at least it's indicative of a countries sort of perception to Bitcoin, whether hostile or not. The trend itself isn't indicative of it really, it's when looking at supportive evidence that you can conclude. For example, a country that has banned it, but still has a lot of people searching up, suggests that the people of that country are looking for ways to beat the system potentially or they don't have full faith in their countries decisions or it could be in direct reaction to the banning of a cryptocurrency that they've never heard of or understood.

So, while these trends aren't painting the whole picture, when you look at supporting evidence, you can kind of get a overall feel for how that country feels towards Bitcoin, without actually living there.

[CaVO32]

Nations with highest figures of Googling in their search don't mean that they have biggest Bitcoin communities.

Quite possibly the opposite. El Salvador's increase could be just because a lot of people wasn't aware of Bitcoin before the recent news. Then the other countries could be just looking for information on it, rather than already being part of a "Bitcoin community" as you put it.

At the end of the day there's no significance on why, trends are trends, and at least it's indicative of a countries sort of perception to Bitcoin, whether hostile or not. The trend itself isn't indicative of it really, it's when looking at supportive evidence that you can conclude. For example, a country that has banned it, but still has a lot of people searching up, suggests that the people of that country are looking for ways to beat the system potentially or they don't have full faith in their countries decisions or it could be in direct reaction to the banning of a cryptocurrency that they've never heard of or understood.

So, while these trends aren't painting the whole picture, when you look at supporting evidence, you can kind of get a overall feel for how that country feels towards Bitcoin, without actually living there.

This is very true, we can't make a conclusion from this type of statistics. But just to give an idea how each nation has the interest on bitcoin. This is actually vague study but that's fine. It also shows that whether a country has prohibitions regarding crypto transactions like Nigeria, it doesn't stop its people to search for this new currency in the market. Because they can always participate in this market via p2p and other trading platforms. It means, the government can't totally stop its people from joining this market. They will always find a way how to get a hold of crypto.

[boyptc]

Not surprised about it with El Salvador.

It's their legal tender and despite that legality, a lot of their people still not aware of it and against to it. And that's why they have to do their own researches to understand it.

Well, that's a progress then if the citizens from there are doing their initiative of making their "DYOR".

[Nrcewker]

It’s no surprise to see El Salvador at the top.
I mean they were the first nation to legalise the coin.
So it has to be El Salvador in the top, as all the citizens might always try to browse and learn more about Bitcoins.
And i am too not surprised to see Nigeria in the second place.
Nigeria is famous for scamming people in Bitcoins P2P platform (not targeting all Nigerians). So definitely they deserves the second place.
Moreover OP, can you tell us how did you made the list ? Or what’s the source to it?
Waiting for a reply .

[Vatimins]

     Damn, I never expected to not see countries that are very pro bitcoin in this list specially El Salvador. It seems like the people of El Salvador really aren't that curious with bitcoin and may have been just forced to adapt because of the government. With this, we can easily understand that mass adoption cannot be forced. Only when bitcoin and the other altcoins don't get talked crap about by influential people will we see a genuine increase on the number of mass adoption around the world. And only in such conditions should governments try to slowly legalize bitcoin and not as fast as El Salvador which has caused a failure.

[Darker45]

It's ironic that the No. 1 nation on the list accepted Bitcoin as a legal tender, while in the second Bitcoin is not accepted by the government and actually is banned in bank transactions. This goes to show that the while government acceptance helps to make citizens more receptive of Bitcoin, the citizens can choose to adopt it regardless.

Not really that ironic. Whether you accept Bitcoin or ban Bitcoin, it means people would want to know about Bitcoin. To anybody who hasn't heard of Bitcoin yet or to one who has heard but hasn't really known it, a ban or an acceptance as a legal tender would somehow pique his/her curiosity about Bitcoin. That would lead him/her to search for it online. This is why a criticism, a tirade, a ban, even a condemnation of Bitcoin is still a promotion of Bitcoin so to speak.

But trying to know and understand Bitcoin is not adoption, although there is a probability that learning about Bitcoin leads to embracing it.

I do not know much about the other countries on the list, I have read that Switzerland is friendly to Bitcoin. And in Canada, there was an incident recently where the gov't was freezing accounts, could that play a part in the search boasts?

It must have contributed to it. The City of Lugano in Switzerland has hit the headlines recently for accepting Bitcoin as a legal currency. In Canada, on the other hand, Bitcoin came into the fore during the truckers' protest because the banks suddenly froze bank accounts connected to the protesters. Bitcoin became an alternative for donations. In both stories, Bitcoin must have made a lot curious and led them to search for it on Google.

[adzino]

It makes sense that El Salvador is at the top. Their people googling what bitcoin is and to learn more about it since it is a legal tender over there. Nigerians seems to be very active with bitcoin. I have seen lots of Nigerian traders, but most of them have a very bad reputation sadly. Didn't their government put a ban on bitcoin trading or something and was freezing all bank accounts that was involved with crypto currencies? But I am really surprised not to see Russia on the list. Was expecting everyone to rush after bitcoin once their economy started to collapse. But yeah I guess they don't need bitcoin anymore since their economy already started to recover.