⸺ Obituary · May 20, 2021 ⸺
“Bitcoin and Ethereum Are Dead”
— Medium, Jared Brock
“A few decades from now, Bitcoin and Ethereum will be collector items, not the currency of the global economy.”
Price at death
$40,594
Today
$73,594
Resurrection
×1.8
On 2021-05-20, Jared Brock (Writer) declared Bitcoin dead via Medium. Bitcoin was trading at ~$40,594 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on May 20, 2021, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $40,594. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 81% relative to the price on the day Medium pronounced it finished.