⸺ Obituary · April 7, 2025 ⸺
“Whoopsie Daisy Bitcoin!”
— The Verge, Elizabeth Lopatto
“I could go over the various ways that Bitcoin is bad at being money— how it sucks for transactions, has an associated serious risk of scammers and hackers, and is wildly volatile — but the fact that it’s been used primarily for speculation I think makes the case for me. The many people who’ve sent the value of Bitcoin up aren’t viewing it as the technology or money of the future, they just like Number Go Up. Well, now Number is Going Down.”
Price at death
$79,381
Today
$73,594
Decline
-7%
On 2025-04-07, Elizabeth Lopatto (Reporter, The Verge) declared Bitcoin dead via The Verge. Bitcoin was trading at ~$79,381 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on April 7, 2025, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $79,381. Bitcoin remains below its price on the day of this declaration — for now.