"Treasury Secretary Seals Bitcoin’s Impending Death by a Thousand Cuts"
BTC_AT_TIME $10,842
Published in CCN on 2019-07-15, "Treasury Secretary Seals Bitcoin’s Impending Death by a Thousand Cuts" 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 $10,842 at the time of publication. Bitcoin briefly surged back to $13,000 before retreating to around $7,000, leaving many skeptics unswayed.