{"id":73402,"date":"2026-02-21T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73402"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:47:07","slug":"bitcoin-is-dead-searches-hit-new-highs-is-the-bottom-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73402","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bitcoin Is Dead\u2019 Searches Hit New Highs: Is the Bottom In?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cThe news about my death is greatly exaggerated.\u201d Guess what, bitcoin is dead \u2013 again. At least according to people who search for that on Google and, of course, those who proclaim its demise.<\/p>\n<p>Such instances in the past, though, have been followed by intense rallies as BTC typically tends to move in the opposite direction of what the crowd expects from it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GOOGLE SEARCHES FOR \u201cBITCOIN IS DEAD\u201d JUST HIT ATHs.<\/p>\n<p>This is the HIGHEST level since the FTX crash.<\/p>\n<p>The generational rally is starting now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EMkkC4scEq\">pic.twitter.com\/EMkkC4scEq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rekt Fencer (@rektfencer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rektfencer\/status\/2024847759761678591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoin Is Dead Searches on the Rise<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that when we tried to recreate the same search for \u201cBitcoin Is Dead\u201d on Google Trends, the results were somewhat different from what Rekt Fencer reported. The analyst said these queries on the world\u2019s largest search engine had just hit ATHs, but our graph showed that the peak was in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The levels are still quite high now, and have risen in the past few weeks, especially since BTC\u2019s price <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/2-6-billion-thursday-wipeout-what-triggered-the-latest-bitcoin-and-altcoin-crash\/\">tumbled<\/a> from $90,000 to $60,000 by February 6. The retail crowd, which is usually Google Trends\u2019 user base, has increased the searches for bitcoin\u2019s untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the number of queries now is a lot higher than what happened after the FTX crash in late 2022. At the time, the uncertainty levels were through the roof, with many questioning the overall state of the market since one of its giants had just collapsed in days. Shortly after, bitcoin crumbled to $16,000 in what was a full-on bear market.<\/p>\n<p>BTC\u2019s crash at the time was for more than 75%, while this time, it retraced by a more modest 52% from top to bottom. Yet the crowd\u2019s sentiment seems much more fragile now. However, most comments below Rekt Fencer\u2019s post <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ssang105\/status\/2025051309867728897\">agreed<\/a> that such negative feelings typically lead to immediate and impressive price reversals.<\/p>\n<h2>Dead 477 Times<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin used to be proclaimed dead so many times in the past, especially in its early and more volatile days, that websites had to be created to track all those obituaries. Two of the most popular ones \u2013 the obituaries page at 99bitcoins and bitcoindeaths \u2013 show close numbers. According to the former, BTC has been called dead 467 times, while the latter shows 477 such occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The last such examples were from February when one Deutsche Bank strategist said BTC must no longer be considered \u2018digital gold,\u2019 or a Financial Times columnist argued that even at $69,000, BTC\u2019s price is still too high.<\/p>\n<p>Well, bitcoin didn\u2019t die after each of those 467\/477 death proclamations. Just the opposite; it returned stronger than ever, attracting new sorts of investors, reaching new price peaks, growing its network usage, and so on. Why should we believe things should be any different now?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-is-dead-searches-hit-new-highs-is-the-bottom-in\/\">\u2018Bitcoin Is Dead\u2019 Searches Hit New Highs: Is the Bottom In?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe news about my death is greatly exaggerated.\u201d Guess what, bitcoin is dead \u2013 again. At least according to people who search for that on Google and, of course, those who proclaim its demise. Such instances in the past, though, have been followed by intense rallies as BTC typically tends to move in the opposite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-73402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}