With less than three weeks until the halving, the subject field has overtaken the coronavirus every bit a leading Bitcoin narrative on Twitter — and it's once once more starting to dominate media coverage.

On April 23, crypto social sentiment analysis firm TheTIE published data to Twitter showing that discussion concerning the 'halving' ranked as the ninth-about discussed topic related to Bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter, with 650 tweets on the topic. Bitcoin discussions relating to gold, meanwhile, comprised 690 tweets.

Crypto analyst Mati Greenspan told Cointelegraph: "The virus along with the electric current economic situation has completely drowned out all chat nigh the halving issue."

Halving chatter spikes

However, the post-obit solar day halving chatter nearly doubled to become the second well-nigh pop Bitcoin related topic on Twitter with 1,058 tweets. Only '#trading' attracted a greater book of word with 1,129 tweets, while gold moved down to 9th with 634 posts.

The spike in halving discussion coincided with a weekly high of 8,134 Bitcoin-related posts per hour on Twitter, according to sentiment assay firm LunarCRUSH.

Crypto media coverage of COVID-19 may take peaked

TheTIE has likewise noted a steady increase in media coverage of the upcoming halving during April, which may have contributed to the increment in related social activity.

TheTIE co-founder, Joshua Frank, shared data with Cointelegraph comparing the volume of  crypto media articles on the topics of the 'halving' the 'coronavirus' and 'gold'.

Articles Mentioning Bitcoin and the Halving, Coronavirus, or Gold

The information shows that articles on the subjects of the halving and gilded oscillated within a steady range during Q4 of 2022, before starting to ramp up in volume during mid-Jan. The halving overtook gold during February but COVID-19 became the ascendant story during March.

Yet, coverage of the halving now appears set to overtake coronavirus, with Frank telling Cointelegraph:

"What we can see that kickoff in March Coronavirus became the ascendant narrative mentioned alongside Bitcoin, but more recently mentions of the Coronavirus have started to fall as the Halving has started to gain a ton of momentum."

ETH 2.0 discussion drops amongst March crash

Data shared by TheTIE also shows that give-and-take relating to Ethereum's (ETH) forthcoming ETH two.0 steadily gained ground alongside halving chatter … until the March market crash — an upshot from which information technology has struggled to recover.

Relative Frequency Index

The data shows that ETH 2.0 overtook the halving as a topic during September 2022, and neary regained parity at the offset of January.

TheTIE updates every 350 milliseconds, and examines 850 meg tweets concerning over 450 cryptocurrencies daily.