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Topic: HUGE spike in Google trends (Read 3141 times)

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February 14, 2011, 02:37:29 PM
#9
...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.
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February 14, 2011, 02:32:34 PM
#8
The russians are using their botnets to generate half of the coins Smiley
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February 14, 2011, 01:20:21 PM
#7
Interestingly most of the google queries actually come from Russia, where the trading volume in bitcoins is relatively small.
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February 14, 2011, 09:23:07 AM
#5
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.

legendary
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February 14, 2011, 08:47:02 AM
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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.
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February 13, 2011, 08:40:53 PM
#3
And episode #287 of Security Now http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm mentioned BitCoin...
legendary
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February 13, 2011, 06:42:43 PM
#1
Check this out:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=bitcoin&date=ytd


Certainly due to the slashdot article about BTC/USD parity.
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