⸺ Obituary · November 4, 2015 ⸺
“Jamie Dimon: Bitcoin Will Not Survive”
— CoinDesk, Jamie Dimon
“This is my personal opinion, there will be no real, non-controlled currency in the world. There is no government that’s going to put up with it for long … there will be no currency that gets around government controls.”
Price at death
$409
Today
$73,594
Resurrection
×180
On 2015-11-04, Jamie Dimon (CEO, JP Morgan Chase) declared Bitcoin dead via CoinDesk. Bitcoin was trading at ~$409 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on November 4, 2015, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $409. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 180× relative to the price on the day CoinDesk pronounced it finished.