I don't think Bitcoin is "dead" at all. People have been declaring it dead for years, and yet the network keeps running and adoption keeps growing. The price can be debated, but the underlying network is still very much alive.

Can a dead coin really be functional and  profitable till now without going into extinction, those that are saying and believing this about Bitcoin are those that does not want the growth of Bitcoin. A dead coin still solves people's problems financially and otherwise.

This is not the first time that such is happening to Bitcoin they chose to chase away people from investing into bitcoin because they find it difficult to believe that Bitcoin has come to stay and it's growing beyond what they thought it will be, so any fall in the price of Bitcoin they use it as an advantage to criticize Bitcoin forgetting that it's not a stable coins, the price keeps moving up and down.

Bitcoin is now a well known coins that can't be killed by anyone but it will keep on growing and spreading across the globe and fulfilling it's aim and purpose of creation.

Bitcoin has silent all the negative people that never believed it will be in existence till date,  they only criticize Bitcoin only in bearish run,  and when it bull they won't talk again,  Bitcoin will also shame them to death,  because Bitcoin will never die, it has come to stay forever,  they only talk but can't not stop the people from accepting Bitcoin because of it impact on the society. Bitcoin has done better then any government and its not up to 20yewrs in existence.

Bitcoin has nothing to prove to anyone,if you don't believe in it, you are free to go somewhere else it's not a mandatory crypto but I'm future you will regret not having it now, let them say whatever they know,  we that know thr goodness of bitcoin will keep benefiting from it forever.

Exchange hacks alone did most of the damage before 2021, or we can say before 2024 when the ETFs were approved, because after the approval and acceptance by governments, no one is objecting to these centralized exchanges anymore. These exchanges bring customer data to the government on a plate and governments then eat it haha.

So that's why exchanges are way more stable now as far as I can see. It's the non custodial services which are now under attack, and unlike CEXs, DEXs and no KYC platforms don't have any coalition. They instead compete with each other, but maybe they won't support each other either, as I have not seen a single case of them supporting each other.

But yes, no matter what, the fundamentals of BTC are strong, and that's because of the community too.

I have heard countless baseless rumours about bitcoin in the past, useless rumours that bitcoin is dead and that people should avoid investing in it because it might crashed to zero soon. I have also heard this sentiments from Anti-bitcoin who says that bitcoin is a bad investment and that if you invest in it you will lose your money. So, there have been lots of fake claims and fakes news spread by this bunch of idiots who are trying desperately to bring down bitcoin. But since when they started this baseless fighting against bitcoin, have they actually succeeded? Infact some of them even grew tired of criticizing  bitcoin and started to invest in it. Eventually they will get tired of spreading these rumours about bitcoin someday and probably invest in it as well.

Maybe some of them experience that, but there's probably few percentage of people became an anti Bitcoin just because they lose on their trades or maybe on other ventures.

But usually they became an anti Bitcoin, because this coin conflicted with their interest. Especially if they have business which is badly hit Bitcoin.

Look at those Anti Bitcoin people, either they are promoting other scam coins or been influence by wrong ideology. So best not to pay attention with them, since its natural for them to call Bitcoin is dead once market undergoes on correction phase.