⸺ Obituary · October 7, 2015 ⸺
“I Broke Bitcoin”
— Vice.com, Alister Maclin
““The main thing is that bitcoin network spends much more resources (electricity, hardware, human efforts) per transaction than current centralized systems,” Maclin wrote. “Bitcoin exists now, because of bubble-ponzi scheme.””
Price at death
$243
Today
$73,490
Resurrection
×302
On 2015-10-07, Alister Maclin (Programmer) declared Bitcoin dead via Vice.com. Bitcoin was trading at ~$243 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on October 7, 2015, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $243. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 302× relative to the price on the day Vice.com pronounced it finished.