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BTC has died 466 times –

Just before the FTX collapse, bitcoin was trading above the $20K zone and after the problems started to show and the company filed for bankruptcy, bitcoin’s price dropped close to 19% lower than it was days before the fiasco. According to the official Bitcoin Obituaries List, two more bitcoin obituaries were added to the list over the years due to falling crypto prices.

2 Additional Notice of Death Calls Added To the Bitcoin Obituaries Listing Following FTX’s Decease

It’s safe to say that the FTX collapse brought cryptocurrency prices down a great deal and since the demise, the Bitcoin Obituaries list hosted on 99bitcoins.com has added two deaths to the long list of written obituaries published since December 15, 2010.

According to the list, bitcoin has died 466 times since 99bitcoins.com started the deaths list. So far in 2022, roughly 22 bitcoin obituaries have been added this year, which is more than 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2020 in terms of deaths per year.

BTC Has Died 466 Times — 2 More Death Calls Added to the Bitcoin Obituaries List After FTX Collapsed
The Bitcoin Obituaries list hosted on 99bitcoins.com shows that Bitcoin has died 466 times since the first obituary was written in 2010.

The last two were recorded following the FTX collapse. The first came from Ramp Capital’s Twitter account. At the time of the published obituary, BTC‘s value was around $15,880. 78 per unit according to 99bitcoins.com.

“Crypto died today,” Ramp Capital tweeted. “I don’t see how it can recover from this. The generational wealth disappeared. Trust has disappeared.” Chetan Bhagat, an author, shared another statement and the second Bitcoin obituary following Ramp Capital’s tweet.

On Twitter, Bhagat said: “Crypto is now dead: FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange, collapsed last week, proving a lot of cool guys horribly wrong,” quoting an excerpt from his editorial.

A look at 2022’s bitcoin obituaries over the last three months, according to 99bitcoins.com.

Bhagat and Ramp Capital join the likes of the popular essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the economist Peter Schiff, and many others who have also written bitcoin death sentences. While 2022 has around 22 deaths so far and the year is almost over, 2017 saw the most bitcoin obituaries added to the list.

A total of 124 bitcoin obituaries were added in 2017 and the second largest year was 2021. Both of those years were extremely bullish times for BTC‘s price as they both saw record-breaking price highs. Ironically, the very first bitcoin obituary notes that the “only thing that’s even kept bitcoin alive this long is its novelty,” yet the so-called novelty hasn’t worn off in 14 years.

The Bitcoin Obituaries list hosted on 99bitcoins.com is always a fun read, but not one of the so-called death calls has ever come to fruition. The recent obituaries of Bhagat and Ramp Capital are just a few more that join hundreds of others who believe that bitcoin will prevail.

The leading crypto asset bitcoin (BTC), however, is alive and well with its exchange rate beating like a heart. In terms of functional uptime, the Bitcoin network has been functional without missing a beat 99. 98785008872% of the time since its inception on January 3, 2009.

What do you think about the latest bitcoin obituaries added to the list following the FTX collapse? Please comment below to let us know your thoughts on this topic.

Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman, the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News, is a Florida-based financial journalist. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. Redman is passionate about Bitcoin, open-source codes, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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