"Distributed Ledgers Part I Bitcoin Is Dead"

Published in Medium on 2015-08-04, "Distributed Ledgers Part I Bitcoin Is Dead" 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 $284 at the time of publication. Bitcoin continued to slide in a prolonged bear market, trading between $200 and $300 with waning media coverage.