The city editor of the Financial Times’ popular op-ed section, Alphaville, has apologized for its years of staunchly negative bitcoin (BTC) coverage. As the world’s largest crypto surpassed $100,000 per coin, they took a brief moment to self-reflect.

Then within seconds, they doubled down on their reporting.

In short, their mea culpa for discouraging millions of readers from buying BTC since 2011 (when one coin was worth $8) consisted of a single, backhanded sentence: “We’re sorry if at any moment in the past 14 years you chose based on our coverage not to buy a thing whose number has gone up.”

Sorry, not sorry!

Immediately prior to that non-apology, editor Bryce Elder reiterated his support for FT Alphaville’s doomsaying proclamations as BTC rallied 1,200,000% from the section’s June 2011 coverage. Mostly defending the reign of former editor, Isabella Kaminski, he reaffirmed, “We stand by every single one of those posts.”

According to Elder’s own summary of FT Alphaville’s publications over the last 13 years, BTC is “a negative-sum game,” “compromised as a store of value,” and “an arbitrary hype gauge.”

Read more: Bitcoin flippened silver and Saudi Aramco — are Google and Amazon next?

Indeed, today is a day of reckoning for many BTC doomsayers. Peter Schiff, Nouriel Roubini, Craig Wright, Jim Cramer, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Jamie Dimon, and countless others predicted that the currency would never hit $100,000.

It has.

Whether someone chooses to self-reflect and apologize, or double-down on their belief, is up to them. BTC is now worth $2 trillion and has achieved a milestone in the history of internet-native money, surpassing the values of Visa, Berkshire Hathaway, Saudi Aramco, and Facebook.

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Western Alliance bank has denied a Financial Times (FT) article stating that the bank was exploring a sale of all or part of its business, based on tip-offs by two anonymous sources who claimed to have been briefed on the matter.

“This story is absolutely false,” the Arizona-based bank told reporters in a statement after the article was published. “There is no truth in it.”

The sources told the outlet that it had hired advisers to consider its options — but that deliberations were in the beginning stage and therefore might not amount to any changes.

Western Alliance shares are down 50% since Monday, when First Republic became the latest major US bank to collapse in recent months. On Wednesday, Western Alliance stated that no unusual deposit outflows had occurred after JP Morgan acquired First Republic, likely in a bid to reassure investors.

Read more: First Republic Bank collapses, JP Morgan to take over ‘all deposits’

However, FT’s article seems to have had a negative impact. According to FT, shares were trading 45% lower after its piece was published.

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