"Ten Years In, Nobody Has Come Up With A Use For Blockchain"
BTC_AT_TIME $13,857
Published in HackerNoon on 2017-12-22, "Ten Years In, Nobody Has Come Up With A Use For Blockchain" 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 $13,857 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.