"Bitcoin Is Getting Annihilated"

Published in Business Insider on 2015-01-15, "Bitcoin Is Getting Annihilated" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece argued that Bitcoin's fundamental flaws — including volatility, scalability limitations, and lack of intrinsic value — made long-term survival unlikely. Bitcoin was trading at $210 at the time of publication. Bitcoin continued to slide in a prolonged bear market, trading between $200 and $300 with waning media coverage.