Bitcoin Is Dead
Timeline of public declarations predicting Bitcoin’s failure, compiled from media, analysts, and commentators over the years
A collection of news articles and quotes from prominent figures predicting Bitcoin's failure, plotted against Bitcoin's price at the time of publication.
Request format
curl -X GET "https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/bitcoin-is-dead/METRIC_NAME?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN"api_token (required) — 24 character token.
resolution (optional) — 1d only for the metrics on this chart. Any other value is refused with a 400 that names what is available; see Resolutions.
before (optional) — exclusive cursor, returns observations older than this timestamp_ms. Works on every resolution.
limit (optional) — the most recent N observations, maximum 5000. Finer resolutions page by default (2500); a 1d request returns the whole series unless you send limit or before.
before and limit narrow a time series. A response with no single time axis, such as a hash keyed by venue or a labelled snapshot table, has nothing to cut on. It is returned whole, and both parameters are ignored rather than rejected.
A before that is not a positive epoch-millisecond timestamp is a 400. It is the one paging value we reject rather than ignore, because a page size has a sensible default and a cursor does not.
include (optional) — definition wraps the response as {"definition": …, "data": …} and returns the record shown under each metric; see Definitions. Any other value is a 400.
:metric_name — one of the metric names listed below.
200 with JSON payload, 400 for an unknown include value, 401 for missing/invalid token, 404 for missing resources.
Metrics
Each metric is fetched independently. Responses are trimmed samples to show structure.
Bitcoin Death Predictionsbitcoin_deaths
Data used by the Bitcoin Is Dead chart.
Resolutions: 1d only.
https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/bitcoin-is-dead/bitcoin_deaths?api_token=YOUR_TOKENReplace `YOUR_TOKEN` with your API token.
[
{
"date": "6/7/2011",
"slug": "2011-06-07-why-bitcoin-will-fail-as-a-currency",
"quote": "Because, by design, there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins in existence. And thanks to hoarding and attrition, we can be sure that it will eventually serve as nothing more than as a collector’s item. . . .…",
"person": "Tav Siva",
"jobTitle": "Distributed Systems Engineer",
"archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110610001605/http://tav.espians.com:80/why-bitcoin-will-fail-as-a-currency.html",
"articleTitle": "Why Bitcoin Will Fail As A Currency",
"bitcoinPrice": 23.92,
"publicationName": "Tav's Blog"
},
{
"date": "5/8/2011",
"slug": "2011-05-08-why-bitcoin-will-fail",
"quote": "Like the gold standard, a successful bitcoin would send our economy back into the dark ages. . . . Even if it became popular, governments would squash it because of #1 and because they like being in power. . . . With…",
"person": "Avery Pennarun",
"jobTitle": "Google Fiber Engineer",
"archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110512041934/http://apenwarr.ca:80/log/?m=201105",
"articleTitle": "Why Bitcoin Will Fail",
"bitcoinPrice": 3.87,
"publicationName": "Apenwarr"
},
{
"date": "10/15/2010",
"slug": "2010-10-15-why-bitcoin-cant-be-a-currency",
"quote": "Negative feedback loops like this are basically homeostasis. In nature, positive feedback loops like exist with Bitcoin are lethal; the only thing that’s even kept Bitcoin alive this long is its novelty. Either it wil…",
"person": "The Underground Economist",
"jobTitle": "???",
"archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101215103112/http://undergroundeconomist.com:80/post/1528511369",
"articleTitle": "Why Bitcoin Can’t Be A Currency",
"bitcoinPrice": 0.11,
"publicationName": "The Underground Economist"
}
]Units: usd