"The Great Bitcoin Scam"
BTC_AT_TIME $14,429
Published in Forbes on 2017-12-28, "The Great Bitcoin Scam" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece characterised Bitcoin as a fraudulent scheme with no underlying value, arguing it would inevitably collapse once new buyers dried up. Bitcoin was trading at $14,429 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.