⸺ Obituary · April 1, 2018 ⸺

“Cryptocurrency And Blockchain: Explaining The Fraud In Four Slides”

Crypto Twitter (X)

Nicholas Weaver

Photo: International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley

Price at death

$7,042

Today

$62,500

Resurrection

×8.9

On 2018-04-01, Nicholas Weaver (Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley) declared Bitcoin dead via Twitter. Bitcoin was trading at ~$7,042 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.

The declaration was catalogued on April 1, 2018, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $7,042. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 8.9× relative to the price on the day Crypto Twitter (X) pronounced it finished.

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