"The End of Cryptocurrency Coming?"
BTC_AT_TIME $38,754
Published in Armstrong Economics on 2022-03-08, "The End of Cryptocurrency Coming?" declared Bitcoin dead or fundamentally doomed. The piece argued that Bitcoin failed as a functional currency due to extreme price volatility, slow transaction speeds, and limited merchant acceptance. Bitcoin was trading at $38,754 at the time of publication. Bitcoin fell sharply amid interest rate hikes and the spectacular collapse of the FTX exchange and the Terra/Luna ecosystem.