⸺ Obituary · January 26, 2018 ⸺
“Killing The King — How To End The Reign Of Bitcoin”
— Hackernoon, Robert Ussery III
“Though it once acted as the face of cryptocurrency and introduced the idea of distributed ledgers and digital assets, it’s time to usher in more promising technology.”
Price at death
$11,090
Today
$73,594
Resurrection
×6.6
On 2018-01-26, Robert Ussery III (Blogger) declared Bitcoin dead via Hackernoon. Bitcoin was trading at ~$11,090 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on January 26, 2018, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $11,090. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 6.6× relative to the price on the day Hackernoon pronounced it finished.