Η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη αποτελεί είτε την μεγαλύτερη απειλή για το Bitcoin, είτε τον σημαντικότερο παράγοντα ανάπτυξής του. Ακολουθούν τα επιχειρήματα και για τις δύο πλευρές.

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Are you paying attention to one of the most important debates in crypto right now?

It is about whether artificial intelligence destroys Bitcoin or accidentally becomes its strongest argument. Four serious voices just weighed in.

The Thought Exercise Shaking Capital Markets

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya published a thought exercise this week that deserves attention. His argument: AI accelerates disruption so fast that no company can credibly project cash flows beyond five years. When that happens, terminal value, which accounts for 60 to 80 per cent of most equity valuations today, collapses.

The S&P 500, currently at roughly 22x earnings with a market cap near $58 trillion, reprices to somewhere between 2 and 7x free cash flow. At the midpoint, the equity market is worth $14 trillion. A drawdown that makes 2008 look manageable.

MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor responded, and he’s bullish.

“If AI compresses terminal value and makes every moat temporary, capital will rotate to assets with no disruption risk. Bitcoin is Digital Capital, scarce, neutral, and impervious to AI disruption.”
Arthur Hayes Has the Mechanism

Former CEO of BitMEX Arthur Hayes, speaking on the Milk Road podcast, laid out exactly how the path from AI disruption to Bitcoin plays out in practice. A 10 to 20 per cent wave of job losses in knowledge work does not just hurt workers. It decimates the regional banks holding their consumer loans and small business debt.

“10 to 20% of job losses in knowledge work is game over for the banking system because of how much leverage is employed,” Hayes said.

Credit freezes. Emergency Fed programs follow. Then QE. That is historically when Bitcoin moves. The Fed cannot act until the regional bank index is down 45 percent and banks are getting “smoked 15 to 20 percent every session.”

That is the signal Hayes is waiting for.

The Counterpoint Worth Hearing

Intergovernmental blockchain advisor and bestselling author Anddy Lian offers the sharpest challenge to this entire framework.

His argument: AI does not need Bitcoin at all. Superintelligent systems will build their own internal currencies backed by computational power rather than scarcity. “Why rely on Bitcoin when AI invents superior alternatives?” No miners, no volatility, no blockchain required.

The debate comes down to one question. Is Bitcoin the last asset standing when AI disrupts everything else, or the first one it makes irrelevant?

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source: https://www.tradingview.com/news/coinpedia:366bdd598094b:0-ai-is-either-bitcoin-s-biggest-threat-or-its-greatest-catalyst-here-s-the-case-for-both/