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Weekly series for BitCoin and Google Trends are shown on the left and daily series for BitCoin and Wikipedia are shown on the right. Search terms are evidently positively correlated with the prices with correlation of 0.8786 and 0.8271 for Google Trends and Wikipedia, respectively (for a log-log scale). The BitCoin bubble of 2013 is accompanied with rocketing search queries in both databases.
