Count of published peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, and other scholarly literature mentioning Bitcoin:

2009: 83

2010: 136

2011: 218

2012: 424

2013: 868

2014: 2,070

2015: 2,820

2016: 3,380

2017: 6,460

2018: 11,500

2019: 20,300

2020: 24,000

2021: 25,600

2022: 26,100

2023: 🤔

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Data from Google Scholar, curated by #[0]