Why a record 13M crypto projects are now dead as Bitcoin critics still claim “anyone can launch a token”

Bitcoin developer, Jameson Lopp, posted a simple observation days after CoinGecko published its 2025 dead coins report. The timing crystallized a tension that’s shaped crypto since the first Bitcoin fork. Token issuance has always been abundant, as spinning up a new coin takes minutes, not months. But CoinGecko’s latest dataset turned the “anyone can launch” […]