"For a cohort of investors once convinced that computer code was superior to shiny metal, the recent stretch of greenback weakness has been a definitive wake-up call: Bitcoin failed to act as a macro hedge just as the so-called ‘debasement’ trade was back in vogue."

"I’m a major skeptic on crypto tokens, which you call currency, like Bitcoin, They are decentralized Ponzi schemes."

"What is Bitcoin for, exactly? While that’s been a tricky question to answer in years past, it’s safe to say that right now, it’s definitely not for preservation of wealth."

"Bitcoin will never be a safe haven asset or a central currency."

"I personally think that Bitcoin is worthless."

"Unlike governments, the closest Bitcoin gets to redistribution of wealth is celebrity-sponsored giveaways, which are at worst predatory hoaxes and at best promotional corporate stunts that offer $11 worth of cryptocurrency to people clearly desperate for far more. Help mine the stuff with a high-end computer and get the chance to heat your greenhouse as well."

"What is the future value of the dividend stream of Bitcoin? I can tell you that, that doesn’t take a prize winning mathematician. It is nil."

"The world’s premier cryptocurrency has bounced back from selloffs before but this time may be different. Regulators are cracking down and investors’ fear of losing everything is overtaking their fear of missing out. The route is a setback for people who hoped digital cash would challenge Visa and Mastercard. It vindicates Warren Buffet and others who have compared electronic currencies to a Ponzi scheme."

"Nothing on the Bitcoin label turned out to be in the bottle. As a means of payment, it is cumbersome, volatile and expensive. It has destroyed value rather than storing it. Its decentralized technology was sold to investors as being unique. It has been anything but."

"The historical record of Bitcoin suggests its greatest leaps are made thanks to speculation, rather than to any real progress in utility or technology. Bitcoin’s rise to $19,000 from $6,500 at the end of 2017 was fueled by the belief that the price was only ever going to go up. There was no evidence of any increased adoption in the real world — if anything, the heuristics of Bitcoin trading called for hoarding, or HODLing, to sit on the gains."

"The greatest bubble in history is popping, according to Bank of America Corp. The cryptocurrency is tracking the downfalls of the other massive asset-price bubbles in history less than one year out from its record, analysts lead by Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in a note."

"It’s a matter of when, not if, the Bitcoin bubble will pop, according to Allianz Global Investors. “In our view, its intrinsic value must be zero,” Stefan Hofrichter, the company’s head of global economics and strategy, wrote in a recent web post. “A bitcoin is a claim on nobody – in contrast to, for instance, sovereign bonds, equities or paper money – and it does not generate any income stream.”"

"Bitcoin is the “biggest bubble in human history” and this “mother of all bubbles” is finally crashing."

"Blockchain technology gives Bitcoin two crucial characteristics;— it can be exchanged peer-to-peer without the need for a trusted intermediary, and it lets transactions be anonymous. In both these ways, Bitcoin resembles physical cash. But whereas physical cash is the liability of a government, with a central bank controlling its value, Bitcoin is a liability of nobody. This is its fatal flaw as a currency. There’s nothing to stop its value from falling to zero."

"So when I ask “What is bitcoin good for?” the answer I come up with is “not enough to justify anything like these valuations.” There are all sorts of interesting applications for cryptocurrencies and blockchains. But unless they become a global currency, or a global payment system, I don’t see why, 50 years from now, anyone is going to be willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to get their hands on one."

"“So it seems to me it ought to be outlawed,” Stiglitz said Wednesday in a Bloomberg Television interview with Francine Lacqua and Tom Keene. “It doesn’t serve any socially useful function.”"

"From what we can identify, the only reason today to buy or sell bitcoin is to make money, which is the very definition of speculation and the very definition of a bubble,” he said at a news conference in Zurich on Thursday. He added that in the history of finance, such speculation has “rarely led to a happy end.”"

"Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world."

"Bitcoin is a sort of tulip. It’s indeed an instrument of speculation for those that want to bet on something that can go up and down 50% or 40% in a few days but certainly not a currency, and certainly we don’t see it as a threat to central banking or monetary policy, that’s for sure."

"Digital currencies are nothing but an unfounded fad (or perhaps even a pyramid scheme), based on a willingness to ascribe value to something that has little or none beyond what people will pay for it...nobody has been able to make sense to me of these currencies."

"Bitcoin is quickly becoming a thing of the past."

"Bitcoin’s collapse comes as governments around the world consider regulating or prohibiting the virtual currency to prevent criminals from using it to trade contraband. . . . Ripple has gained 36 percent this year; eventually it could displace bitcoin."

"Bitcoin does not yet have enough users to continue its survival. . . . it will go the way of laser discs and eight-track tapes."

"It's a bubble. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it."

"To the extent using Bitcoin has any benefits now — convenience, cost-efficiency, putative anonymity — it’s because authorities haven’t been taking it very seriously. As officialdom becomes more assertive, Bitcoin will become more difficult and expensive to use, and less anonymous."

"All of which is to say that doing anything legally with bitcoins — and especially converting them into fiat currencies — is going to get harder and more expensive as governments involve themselves. So hard and so expensive, I’d argue, that any advantages the crypto-currency may have over normal means of exchange, like credit cards, will soon disappear."

Early Years (2013-2017)

• Skeptical of Bitcoin's viability
• Focused on regulatory concerns
• Questioned scalability issues
• Highlighted volatility problems

Recent Coverage (2018-Present)

• More balanced institutional perspective
• Covers Bitcoin ETF developments
• Reports on corporate adoption
• Maintains healthy skepticism