Bitcoin may be the word's most popular cryptocurrency, but in India, people are now more interested in Ethereum.
Ethereum was the most searched cryptocurrency over the internet for the past five months in India, according to a new report.
The latest Mobile Majority report from free internet provider Jana showed that 34.4 percent of online searches for cryptocurrency targeted Ethereum, while 29.9 percent of people searched for Bitcoin.
BuyUCoin (NEM) with a 21.2 percent share came third, while the rest of the softcoins could attract just 5 percent or less online interest, the report says.
The research to prepare the Mobile Majority report was conducted between October 2017 and February 2018.
Cryptocurrency searches were at its peak during December, when Bitcoin hit the record price of close to $20,000.
The search trend is not indicative of the volume of transactions of these cryptocurrencies, but there's certainly a lot more interest in Ethereum, according to Nathan Eagle, CEO of Jana.
But the findings of this report is in contrast to the global trend in 2017.
The volume of online searches conducted for prominent keywords pertaining to Bitcoin produced dramatic growth last year, the data from Google and Wikipedia showed.
by Joji Xavier
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