# Is bitcoin dead?

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The answer is if you opened this article to know if Bitcoin was dead. Currently, the market cap is $1.69 trillion, it processed $1.165 billion in transactions, it has 106 holders, or miners globally, operating xxx rigs, and it started with everything in zero. Yet it has been declared dead over 421 times. **If you invested $100 each time people said it was dead, you'd have $89,402,811.09 today.**

source: <https://bitcoindeaths.com/>

Who are the winners always? The believers are the people who understand the power of decentralization—those who don’t get affected by fud and continue to believe.