Amid this Bitcoin rise, the internet giant added support for checking Bitcoin balance for Bitcoin wallet users, but some people opposed this feature.
Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is a leading multinational technology company known for its Internet search engine and a wide range of digital services, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google Search, online messaging service Gmail, location tracker Google Maps, video sharing platform YouTube, Android. Google is known for innovation and has ventures in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) tools and self-driving cars.
Recently, Google’s search engine added support for Bitcoin wallet addresses, allowing Google search engine users to directly check their Bitcoin (BTC) wallet balance by simply searching for a Bitcoin address.
Currently only Bitcoin addresses of type P2PKH, P2SH, and Bech32 are supported.
This is nothing new for Google, as the tech giant had already added similar support for Ethereum Name Service (ENS) balance verification support almost a year ago.
In May 2023, Google added an integrated, readable Ethereum address balance checker system to its Google search engine, and while the majority of people supported Google at the time, this time around, some Bitcoin supporters expressed their support for expanded privacy protections for user data. I was against the support feature. The second you search for your Bitcoin address in a search engine, Google knows almost everything about that person.
Google vs Cryptocurrency
In 2018, Google banned cryptocurrency-related advertising across its ecosystem because many Ponzi cryptocurrency projects promoted Ponzi investment schemes.
In 2024, Google officially opened its empire to promote Bitcoin spot ETF products regulated in its jurisdiction. Over the past few months, we have been seeing advertisements for the BlackRock Bitcoin Spot ETF (IBIT) in the US.
All these efforts by these top internet giants towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies show that the adoption of this innovative sector is rapidly surging.
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