"Bitcoin Prices Are Headed To $0.00: Peter Schiff"
BTC_AT_TIME $15,037
Published in The Street on 2017-12-10, "Bitcoin Prices Are Headed To $0.00: Peter Schiff" 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 $15,037 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.