"Victims Of Bitcoin Insanity Are Quickly Piling Up"

Published in MarketWatch on 2018-11-20, "Victims Of Bitcoin Insanity Are Quickly Piling Up" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece argued that Bitcoin's fundamental flaws — including volatility, scalability limitations, and lack of intrinsic value — made long-term survival unlikely. Bitcoin was trading at $4,414 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.