⸺ 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
$73,594
Resurrection
×20.8
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 20.8× relative to the price on the day Express pronounced it finished.