As of late February 2026, Bitcoin has been declared “dead” approximately 467 times, if you invested $100 each time, you’d have approximately $66M

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25 Comments

  1. The weekly “BTC is dead” circle jerk again with 1k+ upvotes lol. Anyway, I’m pretty sure that from some point in the future, this will actually become true and r/Bitcoin will become awfully quiet… nobody knows when though.

  2. Effective_Key5276 on

    Past performance does not imply future returns. The fact that it has been declared “dead” before and came back up before, does not guarantee that it will go back up. Conversely, the fact that it seems like it’s going down now, does not mean it will keep on going down and it could very well stabilize or go up.

    The movement of Bitcoin is completely random, and any attempts to predict the future are futile.

  3. Breaking News: r/CryptoCurrency says now is the best time to buy bitcoin, same as every other day of the week

  4. declared dead by whom?

    also, this doesn’t break out the exponential decrease in returns over time. Of course if you had put $100 5 years ago, the returns would be very high today, how much more can it go up by now even if there was a rebound?

  5. GeneralComposer5885 on

    3 bull cycles and they think the loop will never change.

    Problem is, we’re running out of greater fools..

  6. This chart needs a “misleading” label

    Over $58 million of those gains come from one single hundred dollar investment on October 15th 2010. That’s when the Economist article “Why Bitcoin Can’t Be a Currency” came out.

    The vast majority of the gains from these hundred dollar investments are from those very early days.

  7. That $100 from the beginning of the chart is doing all the heavy lifting. Nothing the last 10 years moved the needle

  8. That would be $46,000 in investments, not really an easy entry. And most of that $66m figure is probably from the first 300 dollars.

  9. The difference between buying BTC after it was declared “dead” 10 years ago vs now is clearly night and day. This idea that BTC has the same upside as it did in the past is laughable. You can still make money buying into fear/peak bear market but the days of it being able to 100x are long gone.

  10. I don’t think we’ve seen the bottom, but I sold at $68k and bought back in at $62k, so at least I saved some downside.

  11. Of course if you bought at a lower price and sold high you’d make profit

    If you bought it a few months ago , you’d be at a pretty big loss 

  12. buying every time someone declares btc dead is basically just dca with extra drama. solid strategy

  13. Oh fuck yeah give me that “bro if you bought in 2010” copium. Definitely a good sign of strength and adoption.