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> Bitcoin hasn't been obscure since 2011 or so. Obscure for who? I doubt very much your average grocery store cashier, barber, or airline pilot had ever heard
by the_gastropod 8y ago
> Bitcoin hasn't been obscure since 2011 or so.
Obscure for who? I doubt very much your average grocery store cashier, barber, or airline pilot had ever heard of Bitcoin. The farthest-back data I can find (from 2013) shows BTC had a market cap of ~$800 Million. At its peak, it was over $600 Billion. Amongst the HN crowd, BTC was not obscure in 2011—you're right.
- jki275 8y agoThat doesn't make it obscure. MtGox wasn't a secret. It was relatively well known and covered in the news, and I don't mean tech news. 2011, maybe 2012, was when bitcoin entered the public lexicon and it's only become more and more ubiquitous since.
- the_gastropod 8y agoI leave you: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bitcoin https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bitcoin