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Is Bitcoin Dead?

A man who was once one of its strongest champions now says yes.

Jeffrey Tucker recently published “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin” in The Epoch Times. After sixteen years following the space, he argues Bitcoin is down by half over the last year, lower than five years ago, and that the dream is finished. He claims HODL was terrible advice and, most of all, that Bitcoin has become one of the most powerful tools for government surveillance ever created, delivering the abolition of financial privacy instead of freedom.

Coming from someone who once believed as strongly as I do, those are heavy words. Tucker raises legitimate concerns. But I believe he is jumping to the wrong conclusion.

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