people lost their jobs due to COVID and now they want to earn from home due to quarantine conditions. so they start searching about bitcoin on google and many of them learn about trading. or many of them follow paid signals for short term profit. on the other side, people use bitcoin as a payment option to avoid using cash because of the COVID situation. but it's good for bitcoin due to this people will knowing more about it.
Maybe this is one of the main reason why people are now curious about bitcoin halving. They don't know what to do in their house, find an online job and being it brought them into cryptocurrency. Investing is already mainstream now and I guess people should be aware how risky it is because scams are crawling everywhere. Bitcoin is helpful during lockdown and I hope they are on the right platform to invest with their bitcoin.