Tracking Bitcoin/Cryptocurrencies And Blockchain Using GDELT Summary: Two Years Of Coverage

This past January we noted that GDELT Summary was a powerful way to track bitcoin and blockchain coverage across the world.  Looking back on two years of bitcoin coverage, its fascinating to see how coverage really took off in May 2017 and then rocked up in December 2017 before rapidly ramping down over the past year.

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Blockchain, on the other hand, experienced more linear steady growth in coverage through December 2017 and then held fairly steady through July of this year before dropping to a new steady state.

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Just some simple examples of how GDELT Summary can be used to track all sorts of topics across the world!