They spread that kind of news just to threaten the holders of bitcoins who is in trading to cause panic selling of bitcoins so that they will be able to buy cheaper price. That is a crazy thoughts because most of the traders are monitoring the exact price of bitcoins every now and then.
I dont care why do people keep saying btc is dead
but i still use to trade and get profit for that and I never think btc is dead because many people using it and many merchant cooperate with bitcoin. so stay and enjoy. keep using bitcoin and hope go to the moon.