Bitcoin has died over 450 times. Almost every major publication, including Forbes, Bloomberg, The New York Times and Yahoo, has buried Bitcoin and the crypto market in general at least once since 2010. Skepticism about revolutionary technology is fine. Criticism and doubts help speed up development and implementation, as well as correct deficiencies. Throughout history, people have been hostile to new technologies, without which we now cannot imagine our lives: ▫“Television will not last long, because people will soon get tired of looking at a plywood box every evening.” — Darryl Zanuck, film producer, 20th Century Fox (1946) ▫"How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and current by lighting a fire below decking?" —Napoleon Bonaparte, when told about Robert Fulton's steamboat (1800s) "Railway travel at high speed is impossible because the passengers, unable to breathe, will suffocate." — Dr. Dionysius Lardner, Irish writer (1830) ▫ "This 'telephone' has too many faults to be seriously considered as a means of communication." — William Orton, President of Western Union (1876) ▫"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." — Lord Kelvin, English physicist (1895) ▫"A rocket can never leave the Earth's atmosphere." - New York Times (1936) ▫"I predict that the Internet will soon go supernova and collapse catastrophically in 1996." - Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3 Com (1995) ▫"There is no chance that the iPhone will gain any significant market share." — Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO (2007) 🪦 "Bitcoin is dying, recovery is not in sight" - CNN Trader Mark Doe (2019)
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