⸺ Obituary · December 17, 2018 ⸺

“BTC Will Be ‘Worthless And Have Zero Value’ In 2019”

Express

Calvin Ayre

“I’m afraid I am predicting it to go to zero value as it has no utility, it does not do anything and they intentionally are anti-scaling.”

Price at death

$3,540

Today

$61,577

Resurrection

×17.4

On 2018-12-17, Calvin Ayre (Founder, Bodog) declared Bitcoin dead via Express. Bitcoin was trading at ~$3,540 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.

The declaration was catalogued on December 17, 2018, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $3,540. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 17.4× relative to the price on the day Express pronounced it finished.

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