{"id":421968,"date":"2020-04-27T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=421968"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:47:59","slug":"bitcoin-halving-searches-go-parabolic-some-think-price-will-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/bitcoin-halving-searches-go-parabolic-some-think-price-will-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Halving Searches Go Parabolic: BTC Price Could Follow For 2 Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now just over two weeks out is 2020’s Bitcoin block reward reduction, also known as a “halving.” It’s an event that has become the topic of conversation for many watching the cryptocurrency space. The halving has become so hyped, in fact, that an extensive article on the subject was recently featured on Bloomberg’s Terminal.<\/a><\/p>\n

With the strong increase in popularity surrounding the event, analysts have been wondering if BTC’s price will follow suit by similarly rallying higher.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin Halving Hype Is Mounting<\/h2>\n

According to the below chart shared<\/a> by crypto Youtuber “The Moon,” the level of interest global Google users have in the search term “Bitcoin halving” has recently gone parabolic.<\/p>\n

The trend has surely been parabolic. Per the chart, Google has registered a doubling in the past weeks for searches of the term and a quadrupling of the same metric since approximately the end of November in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Image of Google Trends “Bitcoin halving” interest from “The Moon” via Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s a stunning trend that has been reflected across other platforms. For one, Molly \u2014 the former head of Bitcoin Magazine\u2019s China operation \u2014 found last week that the Chinese term for \u201cBitcoin halving\u201d has recently gone viral on Weibo, also called China\u2019s Twitter, becoming the six-most used term on a platform used by hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n

More recently, The TIE \u2014 a crypto-focused social media data company \u2014 found that on a number of days last week, “halving” became the second-most popular word used by Twitter users tweeting about Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

This strong social trend is for good reason: although the halving has yet to transpire, analysts are already becoming convinced that the event will have a decisively positive effect on BTC’s trajectory from a medium to long-term perspective.<\/p>\n

There are two fundamental trends to suggest so.<\/p>\n

2 Fundamental Trends: Price Could React Positively<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Firstly, data from Google Trends indicates<\/a> that there is a muddy yet apparent correlation between interest in the term “buy Bitcoin” and the term “Bitcoin halving,” suggesting the halving is convincing investors to buy BTC.<\/p>\n

This assertion can be corroborated by on-chain data from Glassnode, a crypto analytics firm that has indicated two things over the past week:<\/p>\n