"Bitcoin Is Pretty Much Dead, Says Teenage Crypto Phenom"

Published in MarketWatch on 2018-12-14, "Bitcoin Is Pretty Much Dead, Says Teenage Crypto Phenom" 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 $3,224 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.