Twitter users cared more about Bitcoin halving

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ednesday’s enormous Twitter hack saw dozens of high-profile accounts, among them Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Kanye West, commandeered to tweet out a Bitcoin scam. While the number of accounts used was relatively few, the widespread confusion got people talking… about Bitcoin, of course—but not as many as you might think.

BitInfoCharts shows that there were more than 54,000 tweets mentioning Bitcoin on Wednesday, July 15, and the tally the following day exceeded 56,000 tweets. Thursday’s tally was the highest amount of Bitcoin tweets since May 12, the day after the Bitcoin halving.

Even amid Wednesday’s furor around the hack, the surging total couldn’t match that of May 11, in which more than 82,000 tweets were registered.

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