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At the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, more people–especially those in the mainstream finance world–were paying attention to bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading. And in early January 2018, the Japanese exchange Coincheck disclosed a hack worth a whopping $534 million. This happened right around the time that bitcoin slipped from its peak value, and it certainly seemed to accelerate its drop.

Long term relationships also strengthen, to some extent, around areas indicated as bubbles. The previously observed long term relationship between Google Trends and Bitcoin price [8] can also be seen here, between late 2012 and 2014 (period band 64–256). With the benefit of extra data it can be observed that the relationship disappears around 2014 (for lower period bands) and 2015 (for higher period bands), before the relationships start occurring more consistently in 2016 and 2017 (a region with a number of bubbles identified). The previously observed relationship between Wikipedia views and Bitcoin observed in 2013 (64–128 band), disappears before again returning in mid-2016 and 2017.
Using vast amounts of computing power, often manifested in private server farms owned by mining collectives that comprise dozens of individuals, miners use highly technical methods to verify the completeness, accuracy, and security of currencies’ blockchains.