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Quote from: TeslaWatt.com on April 29, 2022, 02:27:47 PM

this comes for 7 days of searching ?

Why not try the One Whole Month and share it to us, because 1 week might be a coincidence and not really a statistics .

But even though ?I respect the result because EL Salvador is the very first country that totally adopt and use Bitcoin as legal tender so no wonder why they are on top .

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Thats fair result considering El Salvador is like legal adopter of the bitcoin, people might be searching multiple times a day regarding bitcoin, local stores accepting it, best way to spend it in the El Salvador. From around the globe people might be searching about bitcoin and its use case with the El Salvador. I am also not surprised with Nigeria being on top of list since they also had mega changes in association with the acceptance of bitcoin. With the time Nigeria's had to look after escape routes considering Nigerian currency was inflating out of hands! I am surprised in down way that USA as whole and Canada are not that strong countries in terms of bitcoin searches. How is it even possible?

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Quote from: CryptoHeadlineNews on May 01, 2022, 02:21:49 PM

Drop your answer...
As long as I know, Bitcoin is banned in Nigeria.

We are always skeptical about bitcoin bans because we don't trust the media that reports them. They have lied so much that it's like the boy who cried wolf. For example most of the bans they've reported has been a very common thing where government prohibits "banks" from investing in bitcoin not regular people. Or another common case was banning ICOs but the media reported that as banning bitcoin.

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I would say the report is not exact because there are many other people who will use a VPN and change their location by using it so we cannot make sure where they are from, and many bitcoiners will do it because they do care about the privacy, for example, so how can we make sure about the location and nationality of the people who use services such as VPN? however, since there are many investors and bitcoiners in India I saw expecting to see this country at least among the top 10 countries. but still seeing El Salvador on the top of the list is not surprising for me at all.

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It is good for crypto world. These all countries are surrounding the world. I am happy because singapore is one the list. So, whole world are getting involve and spread the crypto-currencies world. It is digital currency so it will reach in the bottom as soon as possible.

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So despite the fact that Bitcoin was banned in Nigeria, we still came second on the top search list about Bitcoin on Google?. Thats actually cool, I'm proud of my guys because they never take last in tech-related things.

I could see two sets of people arguing about bitcoin here, some saying Bitcoin is banned in Nigeria, while others saying it's wasn't banned in Nigeria, but it was the central bank who restricted banks from crypto-related activities, because as for me, I see no difference about that, because as long as I know, restricting is the same thing as banning.

Because I can proudly say no Nigerian can stand on the street of Nigeria to say he or she is a crypto trader and won't be harassed by members of the Special Antirobbery Squad agency "SARS". Because I know the country I'm living in, because once people see a young guy looking nice, dressing well, and driving a clean good car, the whole community tags him as a yahoo boy, which is very bad. So you see young crypto traders hiding their identity just in other not to be called bad names.

So I will like to ask this question to those who say Bitcoin is not banned in Nigeria
1. Why is there no shop on the street of Nigeria where you could buy bitcoin?

2. Why did the only 2 Bitcoin ATMs in Nigeria located in Lagos stop operation the moment CBN announced the ban?

Drop your answer...

As long as I know, Bitcoin is banned in Nigeria.

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Quote from: DapanasFruit on April 30, 2022, 04:17:07 AM

What is another interesting with this list is that United States of America does not figure in the top 10...though it does not mean that USA is that very important in the whole cryptocurrency market. among the top 10, it is Nigeria that can be a little bit more surprising all because we know that the government in there is not that so friendly with cryptocurrency and they barred the involvement of the banking industry with it so it is hard for people to buy and convert crypto with the fiat money...but they can instead do P2P which is actually burgeoning in that country.

Honestly, I am not shocked that USA is not in the list. Main reason for that is the fact that USA is vast and if it was one of the most googled things ever then we would have bitcoin a lot higher. This also proves that there is a huge gap in the system that we could still fill. Imagine USA and UK being in this list, that would mean that 2 of the richest nations of the world getting heavily into crypto.

Today, we have them out of this list and still have coinbase and kraken like places that make so much money, tomorrow when it's on this list, or we have majority of those nations involved? We are going to have trillions for sure and that will help us all, even if we do not live there.

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With this search engine we can't come to the conclusion about any form of trend change in specific region. It is just the indication that global population is looking for bitcoin and associated form of investment. We can't consider this for any of the market changes, because people try to find what is bitcoin through their own language. So, there'll be variation in the result. To my understanding countries holding the most number of users will be having the highest count. It is quite surprised there is only one Asian country among the list.

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Quote from: bitzizzix on April 30, 2022, 02:13:30 AM

El Salvador deserves to be on top because it is a country that legalizes bitcoin and its people should know and learn about bitcoin as a whole because bitcoin has become a means of payment there they should know and google is the best for further discovery.

Is El Salvador up to 7 million people?

US is over 300 million
Nigerian is over 200 million

Bitcoin adoption in both countries is much.

Do people think countries like that will have lower numbers of people searching for bitcoin on google? I doubt that. Just thought about this now, I think it would be good for us to know the methodology used by google, I do not think it is accurate.

Quote from: pooya87 on May 01, 2022, 01:23:13 AM

Unfortunately Google doesn't give you number of searches but only a percentage wise comparison so you can't even compare the different terms with each other.

If the search result is moyt in number of people, that is not accurate if only percentage is used. The number of people and the percentage can show if only the number of people that serached are used or if compared to the population of the countries.

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Google trends has never been an indicator of anything and almost all the conclusions made based on it have been wrong. For example take the search term "bitcoin", you are are only considering it in English not in other languages but make your conclusion globally; whereas people in different languages would be mostly searching it in their own language. For example the following shows how people would search about bitcoin in Farsi:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%AA%20%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86
Or in China the words seem to be "比特币".

Unfortunately Google doesn't give you number of searches but only a percentage wise comparison so you can't even compare the different terms with each other.

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so far there is no criteria for countries that frequently visit and search for bitcoin, every country will definitely have a search for bitcoin, in the picture elsavador is the highest country in the search trend, logically one thing is reasonable because elsavador is the first country to adopt bitcoin as a means of payment. legal

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Quote from: Kakmakr on April 29, 2022, 03:27:10 PM

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. Roll Eyes

You don't conclude things in your own way, you write without fact's, so what do you ja e to back your writings that Nigeria is highly seen as scam capital ?
Go Doyr and you'll see nations ranked before Nigeria. If you know the number bof people that relied on Bitcoin and Crypto during the Covid pandemic,a lotta folks sold coins to fend for families. The central Bank of Nigeria are chiefly responsible for the ban of Bitcoin and other p2p transactions not the government but I see no reason why the government can't come into this though. With the high rate of inflation and corruption Nigeria do need too rely on this bitcoin.
Expecting a change in hands in the government next year as the new aspirants will be tasked to adopt bitcoin else no voting! Period!
Wagwan with them South Americans, Australia and Antarctica, seven continents huh ? Ain't no awareness down that ends ?

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Quote from: qwertyup23 on April 30, 2022, 12:56:02 PM

I am surprised that the countries in Asia only included Singapore on where BTC was googled the most. What happened to China and their support?

Check my previous post and you will find more countries including the Asian ones, the one OP shared was only the top 10. Regarding the China missing on the least, reason is simple: Google is banned in China.

Quote from: Pmalek on April 30, 2022, 01:09:42 PM

That list could soon be expended with the Central African Republic as the country has become the world's second nation that has adopted Bitcoin as legal tender. The only problem is that very few people have electricity there, let alone mobile phones and internet. Judging by some stats I found, around 11% of the population has access to the Internet. That's a bit more than 550.000 citizens. 14% of the total population have electricity in their homes.

As a matter of fact, Central African Republic is the 2nd on the full list with the 94 score meaning bitcoin term was almost as popular as in El Salvador. The reason why it's missing on the list in the first post is because Google excludes countries with low search volume and as you pointed out that only 11% of the population has access to the Internet no wonder that their search volume is low.

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That list could soon be expended with the Central African Republic as the country has become the world's second nation that has adopted Bitcoin as legal tender. The only problem is that very few people have electricity there, let alone mobile phones and internet. Judging by some stats I found, around 11% of the population has access to the Internet. That's a bit more than 550.000 citizens. 14% of the total population have electricity in their homes.

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Quote from: un_rank on April 29, 2022, 02:40:46 PM

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?

I do not find it ironic at all given that the people of El Salvador are most likely curious about the effects of accepting BTC as a form of legal tender to their country. In addition, there are also some people there who are unaware of the existence of cryptocurrencies, so it is but obvious but for them to search about it to know on why their government adopted such change to their current transaction system.

I am surprised that the countries in Asia only included Singapore on where BTC was googled the most. What happened to China and their support?

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Quote from: uneng on April 30, 2022, 12:25:18 PM

Anyway, in my opinion I don't think the statistics presented by google are accurate, because if you take a poor country where only a small portion of the society has internet access, it's likely to see a higher number of bitcoin searches, because that is only the educated parcel of the population who have access to google. While there are another countries where vast majority of population has access to internet, including the uneducated ones, so it's likely the number of bitcoin searches will be severely diluted among so many other worthless searches about celebrities, gossips, tv shows and so on... This way, these countries are never going to be shown on the statistics with positive results, although there are a much superior number of bitcoin enthusiasts there in every aspects possible and imaginable (even proportionally speaking), if compared to the top ranked countries.

Your theory would make sense if top consists of mostly poor countries where not many people have Internet access, but that's simply not true. Only 2 out of those 10 (El Salvador and Nigeria) can be called poor, and if you expand that list to top 30, only 3 more are in that group of "poor" countries. Also, I think that even in poor countries people nowadays have access to internet as it's not 2000s anymore, now all you need is a $100 smartphone to be able to access the internet. Not of course as fast and stable like in developed countries, but access nevertheless.

Another thing, keep in mind that Google has an option to exclude countries/regions with low volume (countries like Cayman Island, Luxembourg and various tiny island-states). For those interested, below is the full list for the 7 days period, including the countries with the low search volume (you will notice that those countries don't have the rating in this list but can see it if you check the link below the list).

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El Salvador,100
Central African Republic,
Nigeria,34
Namibia,
Netherlands,26
Liechtenstein,
Turkey,25
Cayman Islands,
Switzerland,24
Austria,23
Curaçao,
Cameroon,
Caribbean Netherlands,
St. Kitts & Nevis,
Antigua & Barbuda,
Barbados,
Andorra,
Canada,20
Sint Maarten,
Slovenia,20
Bermuda,
Bahamas,
Cyprus,
Singapore,19
St. Helena,
Bhutan,
Aruba,
Germany,19
Seychelles,
Mauritius,
Ghana,17
Belgium,16
Czechia,16
Kosovo,
St. Martin,
Botswana,
Papua New Guinea,
Trinidad & Tobago,
Luxembourg,
Australia,15
Northern Mariana Islands,
Suriname,
Chad,
Turks & Caicos Islands,
Croatia,14
Madagascar,
Grenada,
Belize,
Spain,14
Togo,
Benin,
United Arab Emirates,13
Iceland,
United States,13
St. Lucia,
U.S. Virgin Islands,
South Africa,13
United Kingdom,13
Isle of Man,
Burundi,
Slovakia,12
Côte d’Ivoire,
New Zealand,12
St. Pierre & Miquelon,
Ireland,12
Lebanon,
Portugal,12
Jersey,
Gibraltar,
Anguilla,
Dominica,
British Virgin Islands,
Albania,
Estonia,
Kenya,11
Brazil,11
North Macedonia,
Congo - Brazzaville,
Finland,11
Åland Islands,
Malta,
Sweden,11
French Polynesia,
Guernsey,
Italy,10
St. Vincent & Grenadines,
Romania,10
St. Barthélemy,
Guam,
Mali,
Pakistan,10
Brunei,
Zimbabwe,
Ethiopia,
Faroe Islands,
Jamaica,
Argentina,9
Lesotho,
Panama,
Eswatini,
Rwanda,
Poland,9
Norway,9
Colombia,9
Georgia,
Venezuela,9
Maldives,
Bahrain,
Hong Kong,8
Bulgaria,8
Malaysia,8
France,8
Greece,8
Guyana,
Réunion,
Equatorial Guinea,
Burkina Faso,
Zambia,
San Marino,
Cuba,
Gabon,
Montenegro,
Costa Rica,
Mongolia,
Marshall Islands,
Afghanistan,
Lithuania,
Somalia,
Serbia,7
Latvia,
Hungary,7
Guadeloupe,
Fiji,
Gambia,
Greenland,
Angola,
Paraguay,
Djibouti,
Senegal,
Mexico,7
Dominican Republic,6
Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Macao,
Israel,6
Laos,
New Caledonia,
Denmark,6
French Guiana,
Armenia,
Niger,
Tunisia,
Uruguay,
Sri Lanka,
Cambodia,
China,
Honduras,
Vanuatu,
Tanzania,
Peru,6
Morocco,6
Cape Verde,
Chile,6
Vietnam,6
Guinea-Bissau,
Qatar,
Philippines,5
India,5
Moldova,
Uganda,
Malawi,
Russia,5
Sierra Leone,
Thailand,5
Guatemala,
Mauritania,
Kuwait,
Ecuador,5
Puerto Rico,
Solomon Islands,
Turkmenistan,
Palestine,
Martinique,
Nepal,
Haiti,
Western Sahara,
Azerbaijan,
Guinea,
Mozambique,
Mayotte,
Palau,
Liberia,
Nicaragua,
Bolivia,
South Sudan,
Myanmar (Burma),
Iraq,
Indonesia,3
Oman,
Jordan,
Bangladesh,3
Algeria,
Uzbekistan,
Belarus,
Ukraine,3
Samoa,
Congo - Kinshasa,
South Korea,3
Saudi Arabia,2
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Iran,2
Syria,
Egypt,2
Libya,
Tajikistan,
Yemen,
Taiwan,1
Sudan,
Timor-Leste,
Japan,<1
Kiribati,
Svalbard & Jan Mayen,
Micronesia,
Cook Islands,
Comoros,
São Tomé & Príncipe,
Montserrat,
Eritrea,
Tonga,
American Samoa,
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas),
Antarctica,
French Southern Territories,
Bouvet Island,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands,
Christmas Island,
Heard & McDonald Islands,
British Indian Ocean Territory,
Monaco,
Norfolk Island,
Niue,
Nauru,
Pitcairn Islands,
North Korea,
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands,
Tokelau,
Tuvalu,
U.S. Outlying Islands,
Vatican City,
Wallis & Futuna,

Source: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=bitcoin

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It would be interesting to see two kinds of statistics: in proportional and general numbers. So, despite the small, less populated countries which highlight themselves in bitcoin key search, like El Salvador and Nigeria, we could also see the countries where bitcoin has more enthusiasts and curious people about it.

Anyway, in my opinion I don't think the statistics presented by google are accurate, because if you take a poor country where only a small portion of the society has internet access, it's likely to see a higher number of bitcoin searches, because that is only the educated parcel of the population who have access to google. While there are another countries where vast majority of population has access to internet, including the uneducated ones, so it's likely the number of bitcoin searches will be severely diluted among so many other worthless searches about celebrities, gossips, tv shows and so on... This way, these countries are never going to be shown on the statistics with positive results, although there are a much superior number of bitcoin enthusiasts there in every aspects possible and imaginable (even proportionally speaking), if compared to the top ranked countries.

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Quote from: Vatimins on April 29, 2022, 09:23:46 PM

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.

I don't believe the people of El Salvador were forced to adopt Bitcoin. They have the option to use their local Fiat as they do with Bitcoin and if you say they they are continually making research to understand Bitcoin more which leads to what is presented in the chat, I'd agree and as for Nigeria, we do know that the Government has not been able to provide the enabling economy for the ever-growing youths to thrive hence the surge into cryptocurrency so no surprise there to see Nigerian on the top of that list.

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Quote from: Apocollapse on April 30, 2022, 03:25:26 AM

I think it's unfair since you're search the last 7 days only, not the entire years. If you set on a previous month, previous year, or entire years, I doubt the number one still El Salvador because the high demand of El Salvador started when Bitcoin get legal tendered in their countries.

Well, this topic is about the last week and no one is stopping you from sharing the results from the last few months/years etc.

Quote from: Apocollapse on April 30, 2022, 03:25:26 AM

Also not everyone use google as their main browser, google is suck and can spy your activities.

Not everyone of course but vast majority of people do use Google so results are probably pretty accurate.

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on April 30, 2022, 08:17:25 AM

Note: I’m not sure how legit the image in the OP is in terms of forum rules: The OP lacks referencing the source (which is Google Trends set with a 7 day view and a worldwide search), and it’s also providing publicity to the OP’s company outside of the usual legit boards, which in this case does not provide any other purpose nor enriches the information.

Since OP just shared that graphic with his company name and never bothered to leave a reply to any of the posts, whole purpose of this topic was probably to promote the said website and nothing else. And yeah, it would be fair to mention the source of data but as we know bitcointalk is very lenient when it comes to even blatant stealing of someone else's images, let alone this.

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Just to remark, once more, what @Rikafip has highlighted on this thread: The information that Google Trends displays is an indicator, but it is expressed in relative terms, not absolute terms. That means that one country could be making the most searches for bitcoin worldwide, but still appear far from the top.

That could easily be the case of USA, which appears in the 18th position on Google Trends (page through the list) for the same timeframe. What’s more, USA figures with a rating of 13, for 100 for El Salvador. That means that, in the given timeframe:

- El Salvador has the highest ratio of searches for the term "bitcoin" in relation to all searches on Google made within the country. Thus the 100 indicator attributed to the maximum ratio, regadless of the ratio value itself (i.e. 100 could be equating 100000 searches for "bitcoin"/50000000 searches in El Salvador).

- El Salvador searches for the term "bitcoin" is, proportionally, over seven times more than in USA (100/13), in relation to all the searches made within each of these countries on Google. That is, therefore, in relative terms. In absolute terms (number of actual searches), USA may be well above El Salvador.

Also note how, by checking the "include regions with a small search volume" check box (below the map on Google Trends), we see how the Republic of Central Africa figures in second position very close to El Salvador. RCA is small in terms of population (close to 5M), and on top of that, it’s ratio of internet penetration is only of around 7,1%. Nevertheless, due to recent known events, they are likely searching for bitcoin way more these days than before, thus the high relative ratio in the searches and the second position in relative terms (despite the small search volume that Google indicates, which means that, overall, the absolute value is not really that big).

Note: I’m not sure how legit the image in the OP is in terms of forum rules: The OP lacks referencing the source (which is Google Trends set with a 7 day view and a worldwide search), and it’s also providing publicity to the OP’s company outside of the usual legit boards, which in this case does not provide any other purpose nor enriches the information.

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