‘Bitcoin dead’ Google searches hit new all-time high

Google searches for “Bitcoin dead” spiked in the week ending Friday, June 18, and likely reached the highest level on record. Google Trends tracks interest in search terms over time, assigning scores of 1 to 100 based on the total number of user queries. Bitcoin's downward spiral, now in its seventh month, may have been triggered by the Federal Reserve’s massive shift in policy, which has placed downward pressure on risk assets. Mainstream media outlets have written hundreds of Bitcoin obituaries over the years; their pundits have been cheering the latest market collapse as evidence that BTC is not a viable asset. Bitcoin supposedly “died” 45 times in 2021 alone — a year in which the digital asset reached multiple record highs Source