"Crypto Is Dead"
BTC_AT_TIME $33,529
Published in The Spectator on 2022-05-09, "Crypto Is Dead" 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 $33,528 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.