South Africa
has topped the world for Google searches for ‘Bitcoin,’ over the last month according to data from Google Trends.
Journalist and commentator Kyle Torpey uploaded the findings to Twitter, which showed the country to be nine percent clear of the number two spot Slovenia.
Austria, Singapore and Ghana took third, fourth and fifth place respectively.
The reasons for South Africa’s dominance were not immediately clear, with well-known figures from the cryptocurrency industry and beyond providing different explanations.
Chief among them were the declining currency the Rand, the popularity of ‘South African Coinbase’ Luno and a population seeking safe haven investments to avoid the fallout from political uncertainty.
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