{"id":92377,"date":"2025-12-18T19:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92377"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:34:17","slug":"tether-ceo-identifies-ai-bubble-as-key-threat-to-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tether-ceo-identifies-ai-bubble-as-key-threat-to-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether CEO identifies AI bubble as key threat to Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A potential burst of the artificial intelligence industry bubble could adversely affect Bitcoin&#8217;s trajectory in 2026, according to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mF2HdKsonNE\">Bitfinex<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the leading cryptocurrency remains too closely correlated with capital markets, making it vulnerable to stock market crashes and the rapidly expanding AI sector amid the technology boom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The so-called AI bubble reflects concerns that AI companies are overspending on infrastructure and data centers, attempting to build power plants worth billions of gigawatts, and buying up graphics processors,&#8221; Ardoino noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, he emphasized that digital gold faces no other obstacles in the coming year. Interest in it is fueled by increasing adoption by pension funds and governments. The Tether CEO predicted &#8220;the end of the era of 80% corrections,&#8221; which the market experienced in 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ardoino also views the direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-rwas-real-world-assets\">tokenized real-world assets<\/a> positively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The only downside is that Bitcoin is still meant for Bitcoin. We don&#8217;t want 99% of the asset to be institutionalized,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the head of the USDT issuer, caution is advised with <span data-descr=\"digital asset treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DAT<\/span> companies: formally, they are ordinary treasury firms, and their success requires &#8220;incredible operational activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tether is one of the largest partners of Twenty One, which is accumulating the leading cryptocurrency. During its debut session in December, its shares <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/shares-of-bitcoin-firm-twenty-one-capital-drop-20-on-first-trading-day\">plummeted<\/a> by 20%.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The goal of Twenty One is to become an outstanding Bitcoin company that provides asset-related services and has a crypto treasury, a very important and large treasury,&#8221; Ardoino clarified.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, analysts from Bitwise and Grayscale <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitwise-and-grayscale-predict-bitcoins-new-peak-by-2026\">released forecasts<\/a> suggesting that the leading cryptocurrency will set a new price record in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potential burst of the AI industry bubble could adversely affect Bitcoin&#8217;s trajectory in 2026, according to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"AI bubble could threaten Bitcoin in 2026, says Tether CEO.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,18,1138,1245],"class_list":["post-92377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bitcoin","tag-opinions","tag-tether-usdt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"282","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"AI bubble could threaten Bitcoin in 2026, says Tether CEO.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92397,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92377\/revisions\/92397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}