⸺ Obituary · July 11, 2019 ⸺
“Donald Trump Not A Fan Of Bitcoin”
— X (Twitter), Donald Trump
“I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air.”
Price at death
$11,346
Today
$73,594
Resurrection
×6.5
On 2019-07-11, Donald Trump (President of the United States) declared Bitcoin dead via Twitter. Bitcoin was trading at ~$11,346 at the time. The call joins the growing canon of premature obituaries.
The declaration was catalogued on July 11, 2019, when one Bitcoin traded for approximately $11,346. Since then, Bitcoin has appreciated by 6.5× relative to the price on the day X (Twitter) pronounced it finished.