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⸺ Obituary · March 11, 2014 ⸺

“The Real Reason Bitcoin Is Doomed”

— Fortune
“Bitcoin is not a currency. . . . There’s nothing that Bitcoin allows anyone to do that they can’t already do in the regular banking system.”
Price at death
$629
Today
$73,525
Resurrection
×117

On 2014-03-11, Fortune declared Bitcoin dead. Bitcoin was trading at ~$629 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.

The declaration was catalogued on March 11, 2014, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $629. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 117× relative to the price on the day Fortune pronounced it finished.

Read the original →
← Earlier death
“Sorry, Libertarians: Your Dream Of A Bitcoin Paradise Is Officially Dead And Gone”
Later death →
“Bitcoin Is Dead — Long Live Bitcoin”
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