• by Colin Kirkland , December 16, 2022

Bitcoin -- the first cryptocurrency to be introduced, which was released in 2009 -- is 2022’s most Googled cryptocurrency, seeing 28,410,000 searches on average around the world each month and 4,570,000 monthly searches just in the United States, according to personal finance platform DollarGeek.

The Shiba Inu coin came in at second place on the list with 1,290,000 searches a month on average in 2022 in the U.S. and 4,430,000 monthly searches worldwide.

Very little is known about the original founder of the Shiba Inu coin, which was released in 2020. the mystery crypto creator is known only as “Ryoshi.”

Coming in at third place is Dogecoin, which in 2022 received around 729,000 searches every month in the U.S. It also beats out the Shiba Inu coin on global searches, with an average of 5,850,000 searches worldwide this year.

Dogecoin is considered one of the first examples of a “meme coin,” created as a “joke” in late 2013 by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer who launched the coin as a way to make fun of Bitcoin. Through Reddit hype, Dogecoin reached mass audiences.

Ethereum took fourth place on DollarGeek's list, receiving an average of 611,000 Google searches in the U.S. annually during 2022. In addition, it received 3,840,000 on average worldwide every month. It's also one of Bitcoin's biggest competitors in the cryptocurrency market, as the second-largest in market capitalization.

Rounding out the top five was Avalanche, a cryptocurrency that received around 534,000 searches a month in 2022, as well as 861,000 searches around the world every month. It is another young cryptocurrency, released in September 2020.

The rest of the top ten was made up of Litecoin, which averaged 269,000 searches in the U.S. last year and 796,000 worldwide, followed by Cardano, which received 247,000 average US searches a month and 1,470,000 worldwide.

XRP took seventh place with 237,000 US searches a month and 1,300,000 worldwide. Safemoon followed with 178,000 monthly US searches and 1,030,000 worldwide and Nexus rounded out the top ten with 175,000 average searches in the US every month and 734,000 worldwide.