"The Bitcoin Fad Is Over"
BTC_AT_TIME $8,713
Published in Seeking Alpha on 2018-03-22, "The Bitcoin Fad Is Over" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece declared Bitcoin definitively dead, arguing the network had passed an inflection point from which no recovery was possible. Bitcoin was trading at $8,713 at the time of publication. Bitcoin crashed more than 80% from its late 2017 peak, with critics pointing to the burst of the speculative bubble.