⸺ Obituary · November 4, 2015 ⸺

“Jamie Dimon: Bitcoin Will Not Survive”

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Jamie Dimon

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“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

$61,577

Resurrection

×151

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 151× relative to the price on the day CoinDesk pronounced it finished.

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