"So, That's The End Of Bitcoin Then"
BTC_AT_TIME $18
Published in Forbes on 2011-06-20, "So, That's The End Of Bitcoin Then" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece declared Bitcoin definitively dead, arguing the network had passed an inflection point from which no recovery was possible. Bitcoin was trading at $18 at the time of publication. Bitcoin had just experienced its first major speculative bubble, surging to $30 before crashing back to single digits.