XRP price – Google Searches For Bitcoin Explodes In Turkey After Lira Crash | Fintech Zoom

Google searches for “Bitcoin” have soared in Turkey following the drop of the Lira against the US Dollar on Monday.

Analytics has revealed that searches for “Bitcoin” on the popular search engine by Turkish residents shot up by 566% on Monday amidst reports of the Lira’s fall against the dollar.

The Turkish Lira sank by about 14% against the dollar shortly after the abrupt dismissal of the Turkish Central Bank governor as announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a decree published in the Official Gazette on Saturday.

Turkish politician and former civil servant Naci Agbal who had hiked interest rates by 200 basis points to 19% in his short time in office was summarily dismissed by Erdogan.

Agbal was replaced by Sahap Kavcioglu, a banking professor who had argued for lower interest rates, after serving for about four months as the Central Bank governor.

Following this move by the president, the Lira plummeted against the dollar on Monday trading at 8.12 per dollar—the lowest it has gone in about 20 years.

Conjecturing that this inauspicious event had impelled the growing interest in Bitcoin within the country is not out of place.

Additionally, Turkey revealed it would be inaugurating a central bank digital currency in the second half of 2021.

This was disclosed by just dismissed Central Bank governor Naci Agbal late last year. He stated, “There is an R&D project initiated on digital money. Currently the conceptual phase of this project has been completed. We aim to start pilot tests in the second …
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