"The Bitcoin Con May Soon Be Over"

Published in Mother Jones on 2018-12-09, "The Bitcoin Con May Soon Be 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 $3,566 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.