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The rumors of bitcoin’s death are greatly exaggerated, according to the stunning number of obituaries it racked up during a dismal crypto bear market.

The original cryptocurrency has died 90 times in 2018, according to 99 Bitcoins. That’s slightly less than the 125 times it died in 2017.

Despite detractors’ eagerness to bury it once and for all, bitcoin’s media profile has never been higher. So even as its price cratered, Google searches for bitcoin have rocketed to record highs.

Google Searches For Bitcoin Soared

As CCN reported, Google searches for “bitcoin” recently topped online searches for President Donald Trump. That’s staggering when you consider that Trump is the center of most news coverage on any given day.

Using this metric, it’s safe to say that bitcoin and the cryptocurrency industry have entered the mainstream consciousness.

A year ago, bitcoin and the crypto market were fringe topics that were mostly a curiosity to readers of financial news. Today, mainstream business outlets cover bitcoin’s daily price fluctuations and the emerging blockchain industry on a daily basis.

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Here’s a flashback to some of the more memorable, recent proclamations that “bitcoin is dead.”

Atulya Sarin, a finance professor at Santa Clara University, insists that bitcoin will never supplant gold as a store of value, so bitcoiners should just give it up already.

It appears bitcoin is now entering a death spiral…bitcoin will quickly go to zero.

“I see bitcoin as a dead man walking,” said Peter Mallouk, the president of Creative Planning, a Kansas investment firm.

The recent precipitous drop may be the beginning of its inevitable and inexorable death spiral.

Mallouk said future generations will read about bitcoin in finance textbooks as a cautionary tale about the dangers of delusional zealots “desperate to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”

Environmentalists — who claim crypto mining is an existential threat to humankind — are breathlessly celebrating the bear market, saying it’s a sure sign that bitcoin is “will soon be no more.”

Teen crypto millionaire Erik Finman said “bitcoin is dead” because it’s “too fragmented” and there’s too much infighting within the ecosystem.

“It may have a bull market or two left in it, but long-term, it’s dead,” Finman predicted

Crypto entrepreneur Calvin Ayre — an advocate of Bitcoin Cash Satoshi Vision (SV) — predicts that the bitcoin price will plunge to zero in 2019 because it’s worthless.

It has no utility. It does not do anything.

Ironically, Ayre claims that the original bitcoin is an impostor and that Bitcoin SV is the “real bitcoin.”



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