⸺ Obituary · September 24, 2019 ⸺

“All Cryptos Will Disappear”

Portfilo Wealth Global

Jim Rogers

Photo: FDV (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons

“All cryptos will disappear.”

Price at death

$8,538

Today

$61,577

Resurrection

×7.2

On 2019-09-24, Jim Rogers (Investor) declared Bitcoin dead via Portfilo Wealth Global. Bitcoin was trading at ~$8,538 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.

The declaration was catalogued on September 24, 2019, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $8,538. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 7.2× relative to the price on the day Portfilo Wealth Global pronounced it finished.

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