Bitcoin CT r: 7 has been left for dead… hundreds of times in the last 5 years. But it’s still here between us, in better health than ever and there’s no sign it’s going to leave us anytime soon. The question is: why so many experts keep failing at declaring it dead ahead of time? We’ve invited Mr. Andreas Antonopoulos to share with us his view on the matter, and what he thinks about the solidity of the Bitcoin system itself at the current time. The Death That Never Happened Since Bitcoin started to gain popularity around 2010, economists, politicians, bankers and financial experts, time after time asserted the death of Bitcoin, failing along for 5 years now. The Wikipedia Bitcoin obituaries section only hosts some examples: Forbes declared bitcoin "dead" in June 2011, followed by Gizmodo Australia in August 2011. Wired wrote it had "expired" in December 2012, Ouishare Magazine declared: "game over, bitcoin" in May 2013, and New York Magazine stated bitcoin was "on its path to grave" in June 2013. Reuters published an "obituary" for bitcoin in January 2014. Street Insider declared bitcoin "dead" in February 2014, as did The Weekly Standard in March 2014, followed by Salon in March 2014, and Vice News in March 2014, then the Financial Times in September 2014. In January 2015, USA Today states bitcoin was "headed to the ash heap", and The Telegraph declared "the end of the bitcoin experiment".” But these are really only a drop in the sea. Website 99bitcoins.com also set up a collection of all the Bitcoin “early deaths” quotes they can find. The page lists 83 posts at the moment, and they only keep track of english news . This collection, of course, only represents a fraction of the whole. Even after the MtGox […]
