Balance bitcoin address can be seen in Google search engine

Bram Veldt

Now when you type a certain address into the search bar, you will immediately see how much bitcoin is on it. First you had to do this through your own bitcoinnode or via block explorer such as blockchain.com or mempool.space. Google has now added this bitcoin information to its search engine. It doesn’t seem to be reproducing very well in the Netherlands yet. The news seems to confirm itself screenshots., according to bitcoinmagazine.nl. The function also shows when money was last sent to the bitcoin address.

Bitcoin addresses and Ethereum domains
If you use the link ‘bc1qgdjqv0av3q56jvd82tkdjpy7gdp9ut8tlqmgrpmv24sq90ecnvqqjwvw97’ as a search query, you will immediately see that this bitcoin address has more than 180,000 bitcoins or BTC. This bitcoin address from Bitfinex is the second most valuable address in the world. In addition to the addition of the bitcoin data, Google is also adding a cryptocurrency domain, for example the addition of an Ethereum Name Service. The purpose of this expansion is to improve visibility and accessibility for crypto users; especially for those involved in Ethereum transactions.

Twitter
Twitter had this kind of function before: if you searched for bitcoin in the app, a widget appeared with the bitcoin price and a button with the function to purchase bitcoin via Robinhood. It is not known how Google reads the newly displayed data; It is also not known whether a third party is involved or whether it runs its own node.