"Nobel-Winning Economist Shiller Calls Bitcoin A Fad"
BTC_AT_TIME $5,754
Published in CNBC on 2017-10-16, "Nobel-Winning Economist Shiller Calls Bitcoin A Fad" 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 $5,754 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.