"The Case Of The Disappearing Bitcoin"
BTC_AT_TIME $3,845
Published in The Spectator on 2019-03-02, "‘The case of the disappearing bitcoin’ – The Spectator | 3,845.11" 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 an unrecorded price at the time of publication. Bitcoin briefly surged back to $13,000 before retreating to around $7,000, leaving many skeptics unswayed.