{"id":13204,"date":"2019-09-06T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13204"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:49:58","slug":"something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Very Strange Is Going On With Bitcoin And BTC Google Searches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-06-Something-Very-Strange-Is-Going-On-With-Bitcoin-And-BTC-Google-Searches.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-06-Something-Very-Strange-Is-Going-On-With-Bitcoin-And-BTC-Google-Searches.png 950w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-06-Something-Very-Strange-Is-Going-On-With-Bitcoin-And-BTC-Google-Searches-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-06-Something-Very-Strange-Is-Going-On-With-Bitcoin-And-BTC-Google-Searches-768x334.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Forbes<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/\"> Billy Bambrough <\/a> Contributor &#8212; September 5, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices are well known to be <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/07\/21\/facebooks-libra-is-already-ahead-of-ethereum-litecoin-and-ripples-xrp-but-not-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>closely tied to media and general public interest<\/em><\/a><em>\u2013-<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/06\/26\/bitcoin-is-this-time-different\/#145530cf16d0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>though that could be changing<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/08\/23\/bitcoins-bull-run-could-be-just-getting-startedheres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The bitcoin price has been climbing so far this year<\/em><\/a><em>, rising some 200% since January, <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/08\/28\/bitcoin-ethereum-litecoin-and-ripples-xrp-suddenly-in-free-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>though has recently plateaued at around $10,000 per bitcoin after peaking at more than $12,000 in June<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Now,  it appears Google searches for bitcoin and BTC, the name used by  traders for the bitcoin digital token, could be being  manipulated\u2013-possibly in order to move <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/08\/23\/bitcoins-bull-run-could-be-just-getting-startedheres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the bitcoin price<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/09\/05\/something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches\/#168a899347ea\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/09\/05\/something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches\/#168a899347ea<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes, by Billy Bambrough Contributor &#8212; September 5, 2019 Excerpt: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices are well known to be closely tied to media and general public interest\u2013-though that could be changing. The bitcoin price has been climbing so far this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13208,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions\/13208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}