The number of mentions of the first cryptocurrency began to grow in anticipation of halving, most of them are positive
Twitter users ' interest in bitcoin has increased to its highest since 2017, researchers at the TIE analytical service said. According to their published schedule, the number of mentions of the first cryptocurrency in the social network exceeded the record set in July-August 2018. Over the past five and a half months, the coin has been written about more than 31 thousand times.
Analysts noted that the growth in the popularity of BTC on Twitter occurred throughout the current year and is probably related to the halving, which took place on may 11. At the same time, the sum of positive tweets about the main digital coin prevails over the number of negative ones, the ratio is 61% to 39%.
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Writer JK Rowling asked Twitter users to explain what cryptocurrency is. In addition to the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, she was answered by well-known representatives of the blockchain community, such as the Creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin
Author of a series of Harry Potter novels, writer JK Rowling wrote on Twitter that she does not understand bitcoin and asked to explain it. Now the post has more than 2.8 thousand responses, including well-known representatives of the blockchain community and businessmen.
"Wizards still have to trust Gringotts Bank. Bitcoin solves this problem, " the @Bitcoin account replied.
The Creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, wrote that bitcoin is not backed up by anything and is a collectible. Buterin added that there is a network of computers that supports a decentralized global Excel spreadsheet that shows how many coins each person has.
"People are interested in this (in bitcoin — - ed.), because there is no Central authority that controls this network. There is no group of people who can go and issue more coins for their friends or manipulate their rules for political reasons, " Buterin explained.
After a while, Rowling replied that she didn't understand much of the explanation.
"People are trying to explain to me what bitcoin is. To be honest, it looks like "blah blah collectibles" (My Little Pony?), "blah blah computers" (I have one), "blah blah Crypta" (it's scary), and "blah blah be aware of the risks" (I'm not aware)," the "Harry Potter" author wrote.
Elon Musk, the head of Tesla and SpaceX, responded to this. He wrote that the current policy of Central banks and the growth of the supply of Fiat currencies makes cryptocurrency more reliable "Internet money". Musk added that he still owns 0.25 BTC.
