"Bitreserve's New COO: Bitcoin Will Go Away In 5 Years"

Published in CoinFox on 2015-04-15, "Bitreserve's New COO: Bitcoin Will Go Away In 5 Years" 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 $224 at the time of publication. Bitcoin continued to slide in a prolonged bear market, trading between $200 and $300 with waning media coverage.