"The Crypto Crash Proves It – Bitcoin's Libertarian Dream Is Over"

Published in The Telegraph on 2022-06-15, "The Crypto Crash Proves It – Bitcoin's Libertarian Dream Is Over" 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 $22,562 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.