Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

I don't think that's even the largest problem, though, for Bitcoin.

If we're going to talk about Bitcoin X risk, I think it's actually just irrelevance.

AI, which is emerging for better or for worse, or AI agents, I should say, is the killer app for, call it, cryptographic commerce and transactions.

The biggest risk is just that AI agents don't want to use Bitcoin.

I'm aware that the Bitcoin Policy Institute put out this study saying that AI agents, you know, six out of 10 AI agents prefer the flavor of Bitcoin versus other cryptographic means of commerce.

I think over the long term, it's difficult to buy that AI agents, given their speed, if they stick with any form of crypto at all, are going to stick with Bitcoin.

They'll invent their own currencies, their own layer ones, maybe transcendent forms of layer zero, and just reconceive the entire notion of a crypto stack.

In micro, I would say a long-term store of wealth is basically just commerce by another name.

You're trying to store resources in some sense for the long term.

I would query whether superintelligence actually needs a long-term store of wealth at all.

It's going to be moving very quickly, taking rapid actions in the physical economy.

Does it even have a need for a long-term, non-operational, sort of non-productive store of wealth?

I doubt it.

At that point, do we even need a quote-unquote...

Yeah, at that point, do we need quote unquote, digital gold?

I similarly, this is not investment advice.

I don't hold gold.

It's an unproductive asset.

It's, it's just not interesting.

If we really are in the singularity, as I claim that we are, why on earth would I want to hold gold or Bitcoin?