"The Price Of Bitcoin Is Totally Manipulated"
BTC_AT_TIME $23,730
Published in Yahoo Finance on 2020-12-24, "The Price Of Bitcoin Is Totally Manipulated" 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 $23,730 at the time of publication. Bitcoin weathered a COVID-driven March crash before surging to new highs near $30,000 by year-end.