⸺ Obituary · June 1, 2022 ⸺
“Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy”
— Concerned Tech, Stephen Diehl + 1500 other computer scientists, software engineers, and technologists
“By its very design, blockchain technology is poorly suited for just about every purpose currently touted as a present or potential source of public benefit. From its inception, this technology has been a solution in search of a problem and has now latched onto concepts such as financial inclusion and data transparency to justify its existence, despite far better solutions to these issues already in use. Despite more than thirteen years of development, it has severe limitations and design flaws that preclude almost all applications that deal with public customer data and regulated financial transactions and are not an improvement on existing non-blockchain solutions.”
Price at death
$31,452
Today
$73,401
Resurrection
×2.3
On 2022-06-01, Stephen Diehl + 1500 other computer scientists, software engineers, and technologists declared Bitcoin dead via Concerned Tech. Bitcoin was trading at ~$31,452 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on June 1, 2022, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $31,452. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 2.3× relative to the price on the day Concerned Tech pronounced it finished.