⸺ Obituary · April 1, 2018 ⸺
“Cryptocurrency And Blockchain: Explaining The Fraud In Four Slides”
— Crypto Twitter (X), Nicholas Weaver
Price at death
$7,042
Today
$67,440
Resurrection
×9.6
On 2018-04-01, Nicholas Weaver (Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley) declared Bitcoin dead via Twitter. Bitcoin was trading at ~$7,042 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on April 1, 2018, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $7,042. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 9.6× relative to the price on the day Crypto Twitter (X) pronounced it finished.