⸺ Obituary · December 3, 2017 ⸺
“Economist James Rickards On Gold Versus Bitcoin — Intrinsic Value Is Meaningless For Both But The Bitcoin Prices Aren't Real”
— Business Insider, James Rickards
“Personally I’m very skeptical of bitcoin, I know where the price action is. It’s, you know, going up about 10% a day at this point. Although bitcoin could go up to 20,000, it can go to 30,000. It’s on it’s way to zero — somewhere between zero and 200. It’s a utility token for criminals, terrorists, money launderers, tax evaders — they’ll always find some use for it. So it might not go all the way to zero. It’s clearly a bubble — it looks like the second biggest bubble in history after tulip mania. Although at the rate it’s going it will pass tulip mania, you know, in a matter of days. [It’s] bigger than the south sea bubble, bigger than the Mississippi bubble, New York’s — the Dow Jones in 1929, the Nikkei in 1989 — name your bubble, it’s bigger than all of them.”
Price at death
$11,181
Today
$73,495
Resurrection
×6.6
On 2017-12-03, James Rickards (Economist, Investment banker) declared Bitcoin dead via Business Insider. Bitcoin was trading at ~$11,181 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on December 3, 2017, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $11,181. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 6.6× relative to the price on the day Business Insider pronounced it finished.