AI Is Either Bitcoin’s Biggest Threat or Its Greatest Catalyst. Here’s the Case for Both.
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The post AI Is Either Bitcoin’s Biggest Threat or Its Greatest Catalyst. Here’s the Case for Both. appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News 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.” 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. $BTC should be the primary beneficiary of this shift. — Michael Saylor (@saylor) March 16, 2026 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…
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