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Over the last couple of weeks, Bitcoin price significantly dropped, losing 70% of its value since September 2017. This bloody bear market seems to be the most severe in a long period of digital currency history. Luckily, the crypto market has started to recover step by step, with Google search trends for Bitcoin rising accordingly.

Given Google search analysis on the two largest virtual coins on the crypto market, Bitcoin and Ethereum, people seem to have lost interest in trading crypto. Following price decreases, search trends of these digital currencies have dropped a lot, hitting 18-month lows.

Cryptocurrency price trend turns bullish as good news hits the market. Major coins gain in price with XRP increasing by 21.53%.

As revealed in a report from SophosLab's Pankaj Kohli, Google Play is spreading malevolent applications posing as games, educational instruments or system utilities but which actually use your Android gadget to mine digital currency.

Google is going to update its cryptocurrency-related advertising policy and lift its ban imposed back in March this year. However, ads will work only in the USA and Japan for now.

BigQuery, the Google's data analysis programme for huge amounts of information, now shows Ethereum (ETH) Blockchain data. BigQuery is linked to Google Storage and allows users view data physically. It was publicly made available in November 2011 claiming to manage up to 70 terabytes (TB) of information.

Recently, security experts found that hackers are currently mining for Cryptos with the help of smartphones. The Daily Mail on Wednesday, August 22, reported the increasing risk and pointed out the need to effectively protect and secure user's smartphones.

A recently published study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) alludes that crypto markets vary based on the type of attention they get - which is not the case with traditional financial markets.

Google is set to get rid of all apps that involve digital currency mining in its Play store. The company explains that such programs endanger children and pose a threat to Android users. A new policy update, that bans crypto mining tools, was released last week.