The influx of funds into cryptocurrencies in the first quarter alone amounted to $4.2 billion. As a new infographic by Kryptoszene.de shows, 79 percent of this went into bitcoin, the largest digital currency by market capitalization. Ethereum was in second place.
Google search analyses also reveal a sharp rise in interest in bitcoin among users in 2021. More people sought information about buying bitcoin at the beginning of March than at any other point in the past year. As the infographic shows, the Google Trends score, an indicator of relative search volume, reached the maximum value of 100.
Meanwhile, the infographic reveals slightly less than 18 percent of all bitco