"Death Sentence For The World’s Most Popular Cryptocurrency"
BTC_AT_TIME $413
Published in CoinTelegraph on 2016-03-07, "Death Sentence For The World’s Most Popular Cryptocurrency" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece argued that Bitcoin failed as a functional currency due to extreme price volatility, slow transaction speeds, and limited merchant acceptance. Bitcoin was trading at $413 at the time of publication. Bitcoin was staging a gradual recovery, with price action between $400 and $700 through most of the year.