The European Central Bank gave a strong critique of bitcoinon Wednesday, saying the cryptocurrency is on a “road to irrelevance.”
In a blogpost titled “Bitcoin’s last stand,” ECB Director General Ulrich Bindseil and analyst Jürgen Schaff said that, for bitcoin’s proponents, the apparent stabilization in its price this week “signals a breather on the way to new heights.”
“More likely, however, it is an artificially induced last gasp before the road to irrelevance — and this was already foreseeable before FTX went bust and sent the bitcoin price to well below USD16,000,” they wrote.
Bitcoin topped $17,000 on Wednesday, marking a two-week high for the world’s largest digital coin.
B.C. Begley 