{"id":95860,"date":"2019-09-06T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches"},"modified":"2019-09-06T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:42:32","slug":"something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/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":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/something-very-strange-is-going-on-with-bitcoin-and-btc-google-searches2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices are well known to be <a 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\" class=\"\">closely tied to media and general public interest <\/a>\u2013-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/06\/26\/bitcoin-is-this-time-different\/#145530cf16d0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">though that could be changing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/08\/23\/bitcoins-bull-run-could-be-just-getting-startedheres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">The bitcoin price has been climbing so far this year<\/a>, rising some 200% since January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/08\/28\/bitcoin-ethereum-litecoin-and-ripples-xrp-suddenly-in-free-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">though has recently plateaued at around $10,000 per bitcoin after peaking at more than $12,000 in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/08\/23\/bitcoins-bull-run-could-be-just-getting-startedheres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the bitcoin price<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 year, rising some 200% since January, though has recently plateaued at around $10,000 per bitcoin after peaking at more than $12,000 in June. Now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}