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“Bitcoin” was mentioned 193,938 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2021 with 6,979 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “bitcoin” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Bitcoin first appears on Hacker News in 2009, the year of its launch, and is the highest-volume term in this set at 193,938 lifetime mentions. The curve peaks in February 2021 with 6,979 mentions, during that year’s bull run, after more than a decade of recurring discussion.
Top threads are eclectic: a from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python, large unexplained wallet transfers, recovering lost coins, and Stripe’s decision to end Bitcoin support. The term stayed active through 2026, well past its 2021 peak.
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