Is AI Killing Bitcoin? The Brutal Truth Behind the Crash! | Truth Block

**Hurley** (0:00)
Bitcoin is dead. Again, as we dump back to the February lows, the obituaries are back. The grave dancing is back. You can feel it in the air. People are done. And this time, the story has a face it never had before. Artificial intelligence. The hottest trade in a generation. A hot ball of money sprinting out of everything and into the AI machine. And Bitcoin's just sitting there bleeding while the future gets built somewhere else. So today, I ask what everyone's thinking. Is AI finally the thing that kills Bitcoin for real this time? And it turns out it's not just Bitcoin in the crosshairs. Because the same force-draining Bitcoin might be quietly tearing the foundation out from under the dollar itself. This is Truth Block. I'm Hurley.
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If you're holding right now, this hurts in a way that the last few dips didn't. My six plus years in Bitcoin and I've never seen sentiment this bad. And here's the part that really stings. Every other bear market had a clear catalyst or villain. This time, nothing broke. The network's fine, the fundamentals are fine. The damage almost feels internal. And although it may seem like it, not everything is mooning. Gold and silver, for example, have gone sideways for months. The real story, the salt in the wound, is the stock market and the AI trade. That's the party Bitcoin didn't get invited to. So if you feel like you back the wrong horse the moment the future showed up somewhere else, I get it. But feelings aren't a thesis. So let's look at where the money actually went. The scale is staggering. Pierre Rochard pointed out that the AI boom added $19 trillion of new market cap to the top 50 companies over the last year, about 13 times Bitcoin's entire market cap. That's one capex cycle vacuuming up nearly all the liquidity on Earth. And the IPOs are lined up behind it. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, the biggest debuts in history all looking to happen this year. All with insanely bloated valuations. So smart money raises cash. Jeff Park called it the hot ball of money trade. And some of that cash comes straight out of Bitcoin. Sailor said it plainly this morning. This is a capital rotation, not a Bitcoin impairment. So let me concede the bear's point.
Bitcoin is being outcompeted for speculative dollars right now. That's not FUD. That's true.
Jeff Booth, who lived through the.com bust, running an internet company, framed where he sees this going.

**Jeff Booth** (2:35)
But if you were measuring in pieces of paper, then you would be in every other hype cycle around, and you'd be comparing Bitcoin to every other hype cycle, and things that are going to blow up cascade enormously bad. Right? You'd be paying at the top for SpaceX IPO.
And these things are actually probably going to trade down in a meaningful way as the unlock comes in, and people can sell their shares. So there'd be a hold period. So these things have to get out. OpenAI has to get out. And the money that they're lighting on fire to be able to build these businesses is no sense to be able to pay that back. Because some of these are going to collapse to the real market later on. And a whole bunch of people that ported from Bitcoin to these things were going to find the money that they thought was going to grow is going to disappear. Because it's all inside this kind of bubble of more and more manipulated money. Whereas Bitcoin is that thing outside of that system. And it reminds me, by the way, because I was early in the internet, had a business in the internet in 1999-2000, when Amazon dropped from $126 to $3. And our company almost failed. It was brutal.
And I remember going and trying to raise capital, and everybody was saying, the internet's dead. And while you're watching adoption go straight up to the right, well, people got liquidated by overbidding things that didn't make sense. So I think the same thing is happening right now, and it's going to, that means if you're holding Bitcoin in self-custody and you're going to do exceptional, I don't know when the port comes back into this and out of the other things that Samson was talking about, but it is going to happen.