"Russia & China will engineer bitcoin apocalypse, Saxo Bank predicts"
BTC_AT_TIME $16,548
Published in RT on 2017-12-15, "Russia & China will engineer bitcoin apocalypse, Saxo Bank predicts" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece argued that regulatory intervention was inevitable and would prove fatal, pointing to government crackdowns or proposed legislation. Bitcoin was trading at $16,548 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.