"Bitcoin Just Surged Over $4000 And Is Near Biggest Financial Crash In 400 Years"
BTC_AT_TIME $4,111
Published in The Street on 2017-08-13, "Bitcoin Just Surged Over $4000 And Is Near Biggest Financial Crash In 400 Years" 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 $4,111 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.