Topic: Where Bitcoin has been googled the most? - page 3. (Read 545 times)

This is a fact that not everyone uses google but i was expecting countries with huge populations coming on top but incidentally it was El Salvador and then comes Nigeria, Georgia, Turkey and Netherlands. Majority are using VPN and hence i doubt all these evaluation can be accurate because China is in the list and i am sure majority use some sort of proxies or VPN and i did not find India in that list.

btc_angela: I'm definitely not surprised at Singapore. I'm Southeast Asian and they, while clearly smack in the centre and a member of our region, are alike us in every bit except living standards and economic development indicators -- the likeliest blockchain hub in our part of the world and almost certainly the most able to adapt to such needs.

They're big on blockchain and crypto ALREADY and bigger still on fintech, I'm just not sure if Bitcoin itself would appeal most -- for reasons only that they like risk more than certainty. And yes, I welcome any Singaporeans to disagree

It's not very useful that it's just one image that has a huge watermark on it, and the link is just to the website itself. It would be much better to see at least a big image of the map, if not an interactive map. And to see what exactly was accounted for in this search results. Maybe 7 days isn't enough time to be representative of the regions, for example. And it's natural that people whose native language isn't English and where Bitcoin is not written the way it's written in English would largely google it in their native languages, but it should still count for a fair infographic, IMO.

This is exactly what is going on with many of the countries, i think we have to be practical here and let use Nigeria as an example, am proudly a Nigerian and I really know about what is ongoing currently in the country as regards bitcoin and crypto at large, i also agree that Nigeria had a second place in the most search word on google (bitcoin) the government here does not ban cryptocurrency in it entirety on the citizens, it only ban the commercial banks from having any crypto related transactions, that's the first instance, secondly ibsee how desirous are the Nigerian youth in soughting  out on how to go about in bitcoin because bitcoin is the most pronounced name inbthe country when it comes to digital economy and i can see how many citizens got eager to know more about it despite we are rated the highest in Africa and top users of some exchanges.

The citizens have gone far beyond the expectations of the government in dealing with bitcoin as an investment and a good source of value while the young adults are fully participating through the opportunities in the bitcoin trading using different platforms, i also realized the need by the youths to earn a sustainable living through bitcoin in which the government and their E-Naira CBDC launched could not make any difference in alleviating poverty and unemployment in the country, the country currency keep depreciating and inflation hitting every nooks and crannies, it experience recession some years back before the change in power the makes a slight difference, i also understand its a developing country but you need to see the rate of how the citizens are soughting out for a good living through the role of bitcoin in their economy considering it also as most populous in Africa, why wouldn't it have the highest search of bitcoin on the google and beyond.

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.

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.

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

Did you mean Nigeria? Bitcoin is not banned by government in Nigeria, it is only banned by their central bank. Nigerian government are not saying anything about bitcoin, this is the reason their central bank have such power which can be overridden by the government power if they pass a bill in favour of bitcoin.

If Nigeria is not existing in the world, that does not eliminate scam and other criminal activities, perhaps the level of scam activities in countries like US and other developed countries is also high. Ransomware attack is never rampant in Africa unlike in continents like Asia and Americas. Criminal activities differs and can be rampant in one country or continent than another. The more there are people existing in the world, the more there will be scam and other criminal activities. The best approach is to know how to avoid scam.

If you want to know more about crypto scam report, you can read the 2022 Chainanalysis crypto scam report and see how you cannot centralized it only on a single country.

You do not have to provide the correct information
https://go.chainalysis.com/2022-crypto-crime-report.html


This is the reason people in Africa do not save money in their fiat, if I should be truthful about this as it is happening in real life, Africans like cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and also ones like USDT and some other stable coins (stable coins like USDT can be frozen even on noncustododial wallet, it is not a good coin because it is centralized). African that know about cryptocurrencies like it because they prefer currencies like dollar, euro and pound because it is a hedge for them against inflation, they can easily access it than going to bank to open a domiciliary account. Dollar, euro and pound face inflation too, but inflation is worst in Africa and they see the developed nations fiat as a hedge against the inflation in their country while they buy stable coins as they are pegged with currencies like dollar. The reason they like bitcoin also, especially during bull market year.

El Salvador should be at the top of the list because of how its inhabitants use cryptocurrencies. In the case of Nigeria, the second country on the list, I believe that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are accepted and used by its citizens despite the fact that they have not been legalized by the Nigerian government. Although it is not completely prohibited, some citizens obtain a means of survival through crypto trading, and P2P transactions are another source of income for some of its citizens.

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.
Google is a place for many people and all countries to look for research and so on related to bitcoin, bitcoin continues to grow and is popular which makes many people feel curious and try to find it on google.

Anyone notice though about the mis spelling of "El Salvador"?

Just nuisance though, I mean you present the data but then got it wrong?

As others have said, it's no surprise that El Salvador and Nigeria are on top. Nigeria has been on the top of the list years ago and obviously are very active in trading. I remember people doing arbitrage as well and selling bitcoin at a premium in Nigeria. Surprised to see Singapore, just a tiny nation in South East Asia, but very rich and the population are composed of young professionals and maybe that is the reason why they are in the list ahead of countries like South Korea and Japan in that region.

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.

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.


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.

     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.

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 .

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".

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.

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.

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

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.

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