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Re:Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures by 24gttghh on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:31AM (#15815915)
I think this one is a bit more telling:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=NG&q=b...

(it's for Nigeria)

And the global map for since 2004:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bitcoin

With the search term being most popular in Nigeria.

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Re:Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures by CodingGuy on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:56AM (#15816141)
Actually Google AdWords says that you have an average of 40k searches per month for "bitcoin" in Nigeria and more than 1 mio. searches/month in the US.
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Re:Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures by 24gttghh on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:48AM (#15817170)
Right but the map seems to present the data in a way that implies those searches for bitcoin in Nigeria are more popular than other searches for their given country.
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