11 May Bitcoin Goes Viral on ‘Chinese Twitter’ for the Third Time in 2 Weeks
While trading Chinese yuan through Bitcoin may technically be banned in China, that hasn’t stopped the country’s citizens from talking up a storm about cryptocurrency.
This much was made clear on Sunday when Samson Mow, CSO of Blockstream, noted that according to data from Weibo (‘Chinese Twitter’), Bitcoin was a trending topic. This is the third time this has happened in the past two weeks.
Bitcoin Trends on Weibo, “China’s ‘Twitter’”
According to a screenshot of Weibo’s trending list from May 10th shared by Mow, a search term mentioning Bitcoin’s price drop was recently the 13th most popular term on the platform. This is notable as Weibo is a platform used by literally 400 million monthly active users, showing how excited the Chinese are about BTC.
#Bitcoin is trending again on Chinese Twitter, higher than it has in the past, but about the price drop today. Still, I’ll take it. 😅 pic.twitter.com/IOkIwdyCHS
— Samson Mow (@Excellion) May 10, 2020
The popularity…