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In plain words
Every crash brings headlines declaring Bitcoin dead. The website 99bitcoins keeps a list of these obituaries, starting with a December 2010 blog post; on 11 October 2026 it counted 477.
Origin story
Every crash brings headlines declaring Bitcoin dead. The website 99bitcoins keeps a list of these obituaries, starting with a December 2010 blog post; on 11 October 2026 it counted 477. The joke writes itself: the patient keeps producing a block every ten minutes.
See also
- HODLDuring a crash, a BitcoinTalk user admitted he was a bad trader, a little drunk, and simply holding. He misspelled “holding” in the title.
- Laser eyesAs bitcoin crossed $50,000, a few accounts added red laser beams to their profile pictures with the rule: keep them until $100K. Soon members of Congress, Saylor and much of Bitcoin Twitter joined; El Salvador's president followed.
- Michael SaylorMichael Saylor is the co-founder and executive chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), the company that holds more bitcoin than any other. Since 2020 he has been bitcoin's loudest corporate advocate, known for his quotes and memes.
- Orange pillA riff on the red pill from The Matrix (1999), in Bitcoin orange: the moment someone “gets” Bitcoin, or the act of explaining it to a friend (“I orange-pilled my dad”). We built a whole page for doing it kindly.
References
- 99bitcoins obituaries (477 on 11 Oct 2026) 99bitcoins.com