"Bitcoin Will Never Be A Financial Mainstay"
BTC_AT_TIME $1,194
Published in Financefeeds on 2017-02-27, "Bitcoin Will Never Be A Financial Mainstay" 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 $1,194 at the time of publication. Bitcoin was in the midst of an extraordinary bull run, rising from $1,000 to nearly $20,000 by December.