WhatsApp down again? Google Trends spike after the outage
As WhatsApp goes down once again, there are a number of alternative platforms that are popular alternatives in the cryptocurrency space. Some two billion WhatsApp users were left without service on Oct. 25 as the biggest messaging application worldwide went offline. Meta, the owner of Facebook and WhatsApp, is yet to clarify what led to the outage.Users took to social media platforms like Twitter to share hilarious memes about the outage, with many flocking to alternative social media platforms to find out if they were alone in their lack of service. A similar situation took place in....
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Google trends reveal a huge spike in “buy crypto” searches, a possible precursor to wider retail adoption. “Buy crypto” searches on Google surged to all-time highs in January, far exceeding the previous peak of early 2018, according to cryptocurrency analytics company The Tie. Relative search interest for the term "Buy Crypto" is at all-time high on Google Trends pic.twitter.com/4cFIkI0xbp— The TIE (@TheTIEIO) February 1, 2021 The keyword received a perfect Google Trends score of 100, which indicates maximum relative interest. A similar spike was also observed for Ethereum, which achieved....
The network was halted on Oct. 27 after the team said a bug had caused “non-determinism between individual nodes.” Cross-chain exchange and proof-of-bond network THORChain announced it was once again “fully operational” after a more than 20-hour outage.In an Oct. 28 tweet, the THORChain team said the network was “back online and producing blocks” and had re-enabled trading. The network was halted on Oct. 27 after the team said a bug had caused “non-determinism between individual nodes.”“Turns out to be string manipulation: code was pushing a cosmos.Uint (instead of a uint64) into a string,....
The Google trends data for the search term “Bitcoin” shows that the curve today is similar to that of the 2017 bull market. Can Google Trends Predict A Bull Market? As pointed out by Twitter user Bitcoin Archive, the Google Trends graph for “Bitcoin” matches up with the last leg up for the 2017 bull […]
During the outage, many Crypto Twitter users called for the need for a decentralized social network built on blockchain. Major social media and communication platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went offline Monday as the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surged.As data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro shows, the Bitcoin (BTC) price moved above $49,000 after falling to a daily low of $47,166, an increase of roughly 4.5% in less than two hours. Similarly, the price of Ether (ETH) rose 3.5% over the same period to reach $3,411 at the time of publication. The sudden price....
Search queries for “NFT” and “nonfungible token” have become even more popular than searches for “Dogecoin”, “blockchain” and even “Ethereum.” Google’s keyword search data shows interest in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) has surged to record levels, with traffic beating out search terms pertinent to many crypto assets ranked among the top ten. According to Google Trends, interest in NFTs saw a dramatic spike at the start of the year as Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot and vintage Ethereum-based NFTs saw frenzied speculation.While the bubble initially appeared short-lived — with search volume drying up....