⸺ Obituary · February 8, 2026 ⸺
“Bitcoin Is Still About $69,000 Too High”
— Financial Times, Jemima Kelly
“This week has shown us that the supply of “greater fools” that bitcoin relies on is drying up. The fairy tales that have been keeping crypto afloat are turning out to be just that. People are beginning to wake up to the fact that there is no floor in the value of something based on nothing more than thin air. Ask yourself: is this thing still going to be going in 100 years’ time? And remember that “what really matters isn’t how you fall, it’s how you land”. Jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu’ici tout va bien, jusqu . . .”
Price at death
$69,282
Today
$73,594
Resurrection
×1.1
On 2026-02-08, Jemima Kelly (Columnist) declared Bitcoin dead via Financial Times. Bitcoin was trading at ~$69,282 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on February 8, 2026, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $69,282. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 6% relative to the price on the day Financial Times pronounced it finished.