"Bitcoin Is The Greatest Scam In History"
BTC_AT_TIME $9,652
Published in Vox on 2018-04-24, "Bitcoin Is The Greatest Scam In History" 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 $9,652 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.