{"id":229869,"date":"2018-03-07T07:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T05:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=229869"},"modified":"2018-03-07T07:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T05:35:29","slug":"massive-drop-in-searches-for-bitcoin-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/229869\/massive-drop-in-searches-for-bitcoin-on-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive drop in searches for Bitcoin on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>People just aren\u2019t that interested in Bitcoin since the digital currency\u2019s manic price surge came to an abrupt end late last year, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n<p>With the largest cryptocurrency down about 40% from its all-time high reached in December, Google Trends data show searches are down by more than 80%, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The last time so few people were interested, Bitcoin traded near $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The decline in interest searches coincides with trading volume failing to recover alongside prices in February, Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Data last year showed strong interest for the cryptocurrency in South Africa which briefly topped every other country with Google searches for \u2018Bitcoin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Google.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229871\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Google.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Google.png 1200w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Google-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Google-768x493.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Google-1024x658.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/193156\/south-africans-are-googling-bitcoin-more-than-any-other-country-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africans are googling \u201cBitcoin\u201d more than any other country in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People just aren\u2019t that interested in Bitcoin since the digital currency\u2019s manic price surge came to an abrupt end late last year, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":97273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[5537,53,26],"class_list":["post-229869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-bitcoin","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229877,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229869\/revisions\/229877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}