⸺ Obituary · August 24, 2019 ⸺

“RIP Decentralization”

Medium

Michael K. Spencer

“…we won’t be reading much about “decentralization” here anymore. That watchword for a generation of young men interested in building the future as developers, programmers and blockchain and crypto enthusiasts, is well, kind of dead.”

Price at death

$10,148

Today

$61,577

Resurrection

×6.1

On 2019-08-24, Michael K. Spencer (Crypto Content Consultant) declared Bitcoin dead via Medium. Bitcoin was trading at ~$10,148 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.

The declaration was catalogued on August 24, 2019, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $10,148. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 6.1× relative to the price on the day Medium pronounced it finished.

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