{"id":78547,"date":"2026-09-23T09:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/what-1000-would-be-worth-at-every-major-bitcoin-is-dead-call\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:17:06","slug":"what-1000-would-be-worth-at-every-major-bitcoin-is-dead-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/what-1000-would-be-worth-at-every-major-bitcoin-is-dead-call\/","title":{"rendered":"What $1,000 Would Be Worth at Every Major &#8216;Bitcoin Is Dead&#8217; Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Peter Schiff leads the obituary count with 26 calls, ahead of Warren Buffett\u2019s eight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">The European Central Bank has declared bitcoin finished twice, in 2022 and again in 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">BTC is trading near $86,500 on Sept. 23, roughly 30% below its $126,080 record.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Who Called It, and When?<\/h2>\n<p>BTC\u2019s obituary is its own genre by now, and the arithmetic on it has finally been done. Here\u2019s what $1,000 would be worth today had it been invested at each of the most prominent moments a public figure or institution announced that bitcoin was finished.<\/p>\n<p>The dates line up with real, checkable moments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2011, Forbes.<\/b> Tim Worstall published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timworstall\/2011\/06\/20\/so-thats-the-end-of-bitcoin-then\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cSo, That\u2019s the End of Bitcoin Then\u201d<\/a> on June 20, after the price on Mt. Gox collapsed from $17 to pennies in minutes. Claimed value today: $4,922,700.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2017, Jamie Dimon.<\/b> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/13\/bitcoin-fraud-jp-morgan-cryptocurrency-drug-dealers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JPMorgan chief called bitcoin<\/a> \u201ca fraud,\u201d adding it was \u201cworse than tulip bulbs\u201d and that \u201csomeone is going to get killed.\u201d Claimed value today: $20,700.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2018, Warren Buffett.<\/b> At Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s annual meeting, Buffett called it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/05\/warren-buffett-says-bitcoin-is-probably-rat-poison-squared.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cprobably rat poison squared.\u201d<\/a> Charlie Munger, beside him, called crypto trading \u201cjust dementia.\u201d Claimed value today: $8,800.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2019, Donald Trump.<\/b> On July 11, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1149472282584072192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted that he was<\/a> \u201cnot a fan of bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air.\u201d Claimed value today: $7,300.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2022, European Central Bank.<\/b> In a Nov. 30 blog post, ECB officials Ulrich Bindseil and J\u00fcrgen Schaff described the market as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/blog\/date\/2022\/html\/ecb.blog221130~5301eecd19.en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201can artificially induced last gasp before the road to irrelevance.\u201d<\/a> Claimed value today: $5,000.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2024, European Central Bank.<\/b> The same institution returned, calling U.S. spot ETF approval \u201cthe naked emperor\u2019s new clothes\u201d and putting fair value at zero. Claimed value today: $1,700.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tally comes from Bitcoin Deaths, a platform that has logged <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoindeaths.com\/is-bitcoin-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">478 declarations since 2010<\/a>, 24 of them this month alone. The first landed in December 2010, when a single bitcoin was worth $0.11 and since then Peter Schiff has filed 26 of them, economist Steve Hanke 10, and Buffett eight.<\/p>\n<h2>Who Changed Their Mind?<\/h2>\n<p>Several of the aforementioned names did not hold their line. For instance, Dimon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/09\/jamie-dimon-says-he-regrets-calling-bitcoin-a-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said he regretted<\/a> the fraud remark within four months, with JPMorgan not only having built out substantial blockchain infrastructure since then but <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/after-the-boss-calls-bitcoin-a-fraud-jp-morgan-buys-the-dip\/\">also owning sizable bitcoin<\/a>. Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett\u2019s own vehicle, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/01\/22\/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-changes-stance-on-crypto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shifted its stance on crypto<\/a> in 2025 while Trump himself ran and won on a pro-crypto platform.<\/p>\n<h2>The Genre Is Still Running<\/h2>\n<p>None of this has retired the format because as recently as last week, prominent angel investor Jason Calacanis called bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/crypto-news\/calacanis-bitcoin-dead-cat-saylor-cathie-wood\/\">a bouncing \u201cdead cat\u201d<\/a> (just as its price cleared $81,000). The comment drew replies from Michael Saylor and Ark Invest\u2019s Cathie Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price currently sits near $86,500, up 14% over seven days and about 30% below its $126,080 record. Spot funds just logged their <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/market-updates\/bitcoin-etfs-hit-2026-high-with-999m-inflow-as-bitcoin-price-tops-86k\/\">largest 2026 inflow day<\/a> at $999 million as well.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/crypto-news\/bitcoin-is-dead-calls-1000-dollars-returns\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways Peter Schiff leads the obituary count with 26 calls, ahead of Warren Buffett\u2019s eight. The European Central Bank has declared bitcoin finished twice, in 2022 and again in 2024. BTC is trading near $86,500 on Sept. 23, roughly 30% below its $126,080 record. 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