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Bitcoin’s insurance role grows with AI hacking risks, but infrastructure boom raises holding costs

Bitcoin’s insurance role grows with AI hacking risks, but infrastructure boom raises holding costs

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AI-driven attacks on financial systems could strengthen Bitcoin’s role as an insurance asset. At the same time, the rush to build AI computing infrastructure is raising the opportunity cost of holding it as capital flows toward investments expected to generate more immediate returns. In an interview on The Wolf of All Streets on October 25, Brett Winton, chief futurist at ARK Invest, described insurance as a useful but less widely accepted framework for understanding Bitcoin. He said Bitcoin and gold can serve similar purposes despite differences in how they can be moved and held.

Source: TokenPost

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