Is AI the reason bitcoin price fall 50% from all time high?

[LogitechMouse]

I saw this video where Authur Hayes said bitcoin fall from 50% from all time high because of AI disruption. In short he was talking about AI causing job reduction and which makes bitcoin fall is what I think.
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It is just like when people are linking something wrong to what that caused bitcoin price fall.

To me bitcoin fall because we are in bear market.

He's also the same person who predicted that Bitcoin will reach $250,000, and $10,000 for Ethereum by the end of 2025. The credibility of what he's saying has now decreased, and with regards to this statement by him? He's just making headlines since he's that popular, but intelligent people know that AI isn't the main reason why the price of Bitcoin fell down to where it is right now.

The price of Bitcoin fell because of the sentiment of the investors. Many believe that 2026 is considered the start of the bear market hence, we've seen red candles over red candles in the past 5 months. Does AI became a factor towards the decline? I don't think so that's why I don't see any reason why Hayes is blaming AI for the decline of the price of Bitcoin where in reality, it's the sentiment of the investors that's one of the main reasons.

Bitcoin dropped because the 4-year cycle is still intact. Not because of AI.

[gunhell16]

Since it came from the YouTube apps, it means it's just for the sake of content that he is only after in views, because what he is saying is not true because of the AI ​​trend that we have currently. How many bear markets have passed now? Was there AI technology during those bare seasons?

Meaning, he may have just said that because he knew that many communities would not agree with what he was saying; that is expected by content creators,
and most of us in the crypto community do not believe in that thing either.

[rony_btc]

No one realizes that the BTC bear market is here because the majority of people believed that the bear market was coming, plain and simple!

I think that if the vast majority had believed in the steady rise of Bitcoin without a bear market, that is what would have happened. 

[davis196]

I saw this video where Authur Hayes said bitcoin fall from 50% from all time high because of AI disruption. In short he was talking about AI causing job reduction and which makes bitcoin fall is what I think.

https://youtu.be/mKcrT42c8tU?si=RnLl5wumCQHvdd_s

There was over 90 thousand job loss in United States recently which can be linked to AI just like over 4000 job loss on Jack Dorsey’s company, Block (formerly Square).

It is just like when people are linking something wrong to what that caused bitcoin price fall.

To me bitcoin fall because we are in bear market.

This is yet another sensationalist, cickbaity Youtube video, made by a Youtuber, who wants views, clicks and Ad revenue.
The Bitcoin price dropped because of the lack of liquidity on the crypto markets combined with FUD on the global financial markets and geopolitical tensions(which caused the global FUD in the first place). The fears of the AI bubble bursting also contributed to the crypto price drop. This is the only influence AI had on the crypto markets. Companies firing people and replacing them with AI should be considered a positive signal for the financial markets, because those companies are about to cut costs and increase profits.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

This is yet another sensationalist, cickbaity Youtube video, made by a Youtuber, who wants views, clicks and Ad revenue.

I don't think so either. If that were the case, it's hard to explain why other assets did increase in price while Bitcoin fell. The clearest example would be gold.  But, for example, the American stock market remained fairly flat from the time Bitcoin began to decline until recently. If the cause is that people are being laid off and do not have money to invest, it should have affected these other assets, not just Bitcoin.

[FinneysTrueVision]

Bitcoin hit an all time high in early October. A few days after that, we had that event on the 10th of October where most altcoins got nuked. Bitcoin didn’t suffer as much on that day, but that’s when this persistent decline started.

The 90,000 jobs lost comes from the February jobs report and includes many other sectors besides AI. Despite all the AI related job cuts, the net number of losses hasn’t been significant enough to be directly responsible for Bitcoin going down 50%.

[Alpen]

I saw this video where Authur Hayes said bitcoin fall from 50% from all time high because of AI disruption. In short he was talking about AI causing job reduction and which makes bitcoin fall is what I think.

https://youtu.be/mKcrT42c8tU?si=RnLl5wumCQHvdd_s

There was over 90 thousand job loss in United States recently which can be linked to AI just like over 4000 job loss on Jack Dorsey’s company, Block (formerly Square).

It is just like when people are linking something wrong to what that caused bitcoin price fall.

To me bitcoin fall because we are in bear market.

I’ve been hearing about robots causing mass unemployment since I was in school. Yet, here we are: automation has reached unprecedented levels, but unemployment in developed nations remains at record lows of 2-4%.

Paradoxically, the lowest unemployment rates are often found in places like Cambodia. It’s simple there: you either work or you starve. There are no other options.

As for AI, the only real way it could have triggered a Bitcoin dip is by diverting capital away from crypto and into tech stocks. But even that is hard to buy—Bitcoin has seen major corrections in every four-year cycle, long before this AI hype

[Findingnemo]

AI, modern machines, evolution of technology and automation in manufacturing that always resulted in people getting fired so this isn't new but the world is still spending the money more than previous reports which says the spending nature of humans is always on the rise too. 50% of price fall? It isn't a new thing either.

[FanTuner]

I don’t think AI is the main reason Bitcoin would drop 50%. Bitcoin has gone through many big corrections before AI became a big topic. The market usually moves in cycles, so large drops during bear markets are normal. 

[r_victory]

I don't see how artificial intelligence could be responsible for the drop in the price of Bitcoin. They could say it's because of the war or because of the tariffs imposed by the American government; that's acceptable, but AI? It doesn't make sense, in my view.

[noorman0]

If AI has already laid off many workers, how would it compare to these things?
2025: Unemployed people > looking for alternative sources of income > online opportunities outweigh physical jobs > Bitcoin crash
2020: Pandemic > Economy stalls > Online business hype > Bitcoin hits all-time high
Why is the impact different? 

[Faisal2202]

Many people who look at big economy and not only technology share your doubt in idea of Arthur Hayes. Hayes believes that Bitcoin fell 50 percent as it predicts banking problem due to AI taking high paying jobs, which will leave people without way to pay back their debts.
Although it is correct that much of U.S jobs have been lost to AI in recent times, most of people agree with you that link between jobs and Bitcoin is not direct, most of the time when economy is weak, government is forced to print more money, which usually helps to push Bitcoin upwards.
So, you are correct that we are now in bear market where most people are selling and few buying, and although AI may lead to problems in future, the current price is mostly moved by things such as rising prices and world trouble.

He made an interesting argument though, but this one has too many steps that we have to assume simultaneously, like, AI displaced job, those displaced workers are not defaulting on loans, than comes the banking crisis, and bitcoin drops by 50%.

Everything has to check with the previous with but with huge assumptions and if one is wrong, this whole idea of him is wrong, especially when he said the market dropped 50% because of this haha.

I am not saying AI is not causing economic disruption, but I think it is a change, it is making people do tasks of 5 easily. Even I sometimes do the task of 2 yeah just 2 because I am not too good with AIs.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

No it’s nothing to do with AI. I suspect it’s a mixture of a few things. Trump kept fucking up the bull win with his tariffs nonsense, every time we started going up he’d unload a load of irrational stuff about tariffs which tanked the market. I suspect institutional manipulation to keep the price down. Rumours of Jan Street being involved. Also we have no proof that big buyers like Saylor aren’t being sold paper Bitcoin.

[Joy_learns_crypto]

To me bitcoin fall because we are in bear market.

To me too bitcoin falls because we are in bear market and not AI, I know that Ai are threatening to take jobs away from us but not to take us into a bear market.
I think if Ai want to affect bitcoin it will lead to the bull market, Ai is technological and bitcoin is financial technology so their complimentary quality should be a positive factor.

[serjent05]

Since it came from the YouTube apps, it means it's just for the sake of content that he is only after in views, because what he is saying is not true because of the AI ​​trend that we have currently. How many bear markets have passed now? Was there AI technology during those bare seasons?

True, the market just repeat itself, AI were not that popular way back years ago, and yet the Bitcoin price still dropped after the all-time high.  I wonder what is so difficult in understanding that the Bitcoin price plummeted because the market had already transitioned to a bear market.  Besides, AI and Bitcoin market are two different investment.  I do not think that people will pull their Bitcoin investment during the bear market just to invest in the AI market.

Meaning, he may have just said that because he knew that many communities would not agree with what he was saying; that is expected by content creators,
and most of us in the crypto community do not believe in that thing either.

Or most of his audience is not that knowledgeable about the Bitcoin price pattern.  If people know how the Bitcoin market behaves, I doubt these people will still follow and watch his videos.  Lucky for him, probably most of his followers don't follow the Bitcoin price history and they only believe what is fed to them on social media.

[taufik123]

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Bitcoin dropped because the 4-year cycle is still intact. Not because of AI.

For some reason, people always associate it with AI, that this decline is due to the development of AI.
In fact, AI has a positive impact on Bitcoin or even other instruments due to increasingly sophisticated technological developments.

And yes as you said the once 4-year cycle is the beginning and when the cycle is not completely like before,
the decline is now the beginning of the start of a bear market and indeed it is time to fall, not because of the AI to cause it.

AI is now being used to provide a wider space for trading, producing easy tools to trade and perform analysis with the help of AI,
and there is no compelling reason why AI is the cause of the current price decline.

[rdbase]

People are speculating too much about why Bitcoin has dropped. Some say it is because of quantum computers, AI, war, and other things that actually have nothing to do with Bitcoin. The drop is because we are currently entering a bearish trend, and this was already predicted if we look at the history of Bitcoin prices. So there is no need to speculate too much about things that actually have no effect whatsoever.

At first you would think anything concerning with AI and bitcoin's drop in it's price in the same sentence would have something to do with quantum computing. Since that is the scare tactic now with it hacking the blockchain. Which is a fantasy but the mainstream media always wants to connect the two.
But AI can apply to many things and not just one aspect, so it is hard to pinpoint what they want to say exactly is their fear of it when it comes to bitcoin.
Maybe having it distribute agents programmed to steal bitcoin by hacking into wallets?
This could also become a subject of concern in the future for it's price dropping.
There are countless number of scenarios that can be created out of AI so to cause the price to plummet aswell.
It is only the ones that have enough traction which can cause enough of an impact to make a significant difference.

[STT]

AI will have an effect but Bitcoin having some ability to foresee all the negatives and personally take on that damage as a personal injury I dont really go with as a working theory.  
 I dont think the guy talking is 'drunk ego' or whatever negative take on his theory might be, its a valid take on Federal reserve policy vs jobs figures weakness in an economy but its speculative not reactive;  it hasnt happened yet so he is too far ahead of the game on this one.

I can tell you the most likely reason for BTC weakness right here, the plain simple wording might be 'the cycle'.  I dont favor this so much but its fair to say there is a rough tide change every few years in favor of a rise or fall and maybe we're in line with a 'needed' sell off in pricing especially on the highs.   Current price for BTC isnt that low really but its well off the highs.
   2nd easiest fact to point out, not hard to see is an over interference in the BTC price action.  Politics especially but also 'treasury holdings' type business, leveraged concerns and of course always traders we have dollar and fractional leverage in the BTC price.
   If politics falls flat on its face, of course its constantly spending and losing everyone else's money so yes politics is not helpful for BTC and any positive influence prior is reversing in effect is enough reason to describe this Bitcoin pullback.

[MusaPk]

No it’s nothing to do with AI. I suspect it’s a mixture of a few things. Trump kept fucking up the bull win with his tariffs nonsense, every time we started going up he’d unload a load of irrational stuff about tariffs which tanked the market. I suspect institutional manipulation to keep the price down. Rumours of Jan Street being involved. Also we have no proof that big buyers like Saylor aren’t being sold paper Bitcoin.

Last year we saw two dips after Trump announced tariff on China. First time Bitcoin recovered after falling down but Bitcoin is unable to recover from the fall that started on 10 Oct 2025. Trump family is also involved in crypto and there is strong possibility that he is down such things to benefit his family. If he keep using his position to degrade Bitcoin then very soon people will not take and his successor seriously. For now the crypto community has to face the bearish season mainly because of Trump tariff tweets on China which he later withdraws.    

[CryptoYar]

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AI and Bitcoin are not enemies, they in fact help one another. Although there is an idea that the 2026 price drop is result of AI hype stealing buyers money, truth is that Bitcoin is just going through its usual four year up and down cycle as you correctly said, and this has happened many times without AI hype being in spotlight.

Indeed, crypto is becoming more like AI, as it offers smarter trading tools and faster data checks, while Bitcoin is becoming digital money which AI programs pay for their own services with. What is being felt in market today is simply cooling off step before these two strong tools become totally joined into new form of money system.