"This could be the end of the Bitcoin era"

Published in Yahoo Finance on 2014-04-01, "This could be the end of the Bitcoin era" 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 $480 at the time of publication. Bitcoin was in a sustained bear market following the Mt. Gox exchange collapse, which erased $400 million in customer funds.