"John McAfee Accidentally Just Revealed Why Bitcoin Is A Total Fraud"
BTC_AT_TIME $3,673
Published in Natural News on 2017-09-17, "John McAfee Accidentally Just Revealed Why Bitcoin Is A Total Fraud" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece characterised Bitcoin as a fraudulent scheme with no underlying value, arguing it would inevitably collapse once new buyers dried up. Bitcoin was trading at $3,673 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.