Bitcoin / crypto on Hacker News
How Bitcoin / crypto changed in Hacker News story titles from 2007 through 2026, with annual title share, peak year, sources, and coverage limits.
Data through 2026-07-13
In 2025, Bitcoin / crypto appeared in 0.518% of Hacker News story titles. Its share fell by 0.049 percentage points from 2024. The series peaks in 2018 at 2.089%.
Annual title share
Each value is the share of all retained Hacker News story titles in that calendar year matching this topic's bounded title pattern. Different topics can overlap.
| Year | Share of story titles | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 0.000% | Full year |
| 2008 | 0.010% | Full year |
| 2009 | 0.029% | Full year |
| 2010 | 0.031% | Full year |
| 2011 | 0.251% | Full year |
| 2012 | 0.180% | Full year |
| 2013 | 1.235% | Full year |
| 2014 | 1.371% | Full year |
| 2015 | 0.923% | Full year |
| 2016 | 0.820% | Full year |
| 2017 | 1.742% | Full year |
| 2018 | 2.089% | Full year |
| 2019 | 0.976% | Full year |
| 2020 | 0.616% | Full year |
| 2021 | 1.515% | Full year |
| 2022 | 1.514% | Full year |
| 2023 | 0.633% | Full year |
| 2024 | 0.567% | Full year |
| 2025 | 0.518% | Full year |
| 2026 | 0.415% | Partial live year |
Explore and verify
Open Bitcoin / crypto in the Attention Lab. Read the methodology and verification ledger. Source records come from the official Hacker News API ↗.
Annual values are each topic's share of that year's HN story titles. The live year is partial; any sampled years are labeled and remain share-normalized.