Wikipedia Page Views

Wikipedia lookups are the purest measure of fresh retail curiosity: people who need the encyclopedia article are, definitionally, newcomers. Log scale, since mania days run 100× the baseline.

The peaks are cycle markers: Bitcoin's all-time attention spike was December 8, 2017 (345k views in one day); the 2021 cycle peaked lower on Bitcoin but higher on Ethereum — retail's second wave arrived alt-first. Today's readings near baseline say this drawdown is happening without public attention, historically an accumulation-phase trait.