Joe Weisenthal: "Harshest Crypto Winter in History

Joe Weisenthal, one of the hosts of Bloomberg's Odd Lots program, floated the idea in a press release that the current stretch could be "the harshest crypto winter in history." The cryptocurrency market, he argued, is weathering multiple negative trends at once, a different flavor of pain than past cycles.

Investors, he added, can no longer lean as hard on the classic "it's too early" defense, since meaningful institutional adoption and a noticeably more mature regulatory environment have thinned out the pool of future catalysts waiting in the wings. AI is also doing its part, pulling in both investor attention and energy resources, which he flagged as extra pressure on Bitcoin mining.

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Weisenthal also pointed to quantum computers as a long-term risk to Bitcoin's security, and noted that digital asset treasuries that once stacked aggressively, including Michael Saylor's Strategy, are starting to flip from buyers to sellers. Strategy's recent sale of 32 Bitcoins after a four-year hiatus was cited as evidence of the shift.

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