"Bitcoin Is Dead. It Was Split Into Two."
BTC_AT_TIME $8,096
Published in Twitter on 2017-11-21, "Bitcoin Is Dead. It Was Split Into Two." 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 $8,096 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.