"The Guardian View On Cryptocurrencies: Blockchain Of Fools"
BTC_AT_TIME $8,003
Published in The Guardian on 2017-11-23, "The Guardian View On Cryptocurrencies: Blockchain Of Fools" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece dismissed Bitcoin while acknowledging blockchain technology, arguing the underlying network was the real innovation and Bitcoin itself was dispensable. Bitcoin was trading at $8,003 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.