Bitcoin: The 96th Most Popular Google Search of 2013
You know something has achieved some level of popularity when it enters the top 500 searches on Google Trends. Never mind hitting the top 100 searches - that just means you're really popular. So it's probably no surprise that 'bitcoin' just so happens to have made the top 100 Google searches of 2013. This hobby-turned-investment-vehicle hit the spotlight first in April when it achieved an all-time high of $260+ USD. It then came back into the limelight in November, when the price topped a whopping $1200 per unit. As the mainstream media began to cover the incredible returns early adopters....
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