Say Whaaat? The US Twitter Map Shows California Can’t Shut Up About Bitcoin
The West Coast is the big hive of activity for Bitcoin discussion, it has emerged, with a new mapping tool showing the area has produced the largest concentration of Bitcoin tweets. California, Oregon and Nevada comfortably beat the East Coast and Bitcoin melting pots such as Austin, Texas. Data collected by researcher Diansheng Guo in 2014 was used to compile the map, which contains Twitter activity records for a whole host of words. However, ‘Blockchain’ is not one of them. New York is still playing catch-up. While 2014 in cryptocurrency terms is already long in the past, Guo’s tool....
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