Buterin Debunks AI-Driven Bitcoin Price Crash Prediction

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has weighed in on a recent prediction that AI could crash Bitcoin by more than 50% within two years. Liron Shapira, a Silicon Valley angel investor and AI-risk commentator, made the claim that advances in artificial intelligence would undermine what people thought were the security guarantees of Bitcoin.

Shapira argued that increasingly sophisticated AI systems could eventually identify vulnerabilities, automate complex cyberattacks, or expose weaknesses across the infrastructure supporting Bitcoin. Even if the underlying cryptography weren't immediately broken, a credible discovery of a major vulnerability could undermine investor confidence in the network.

However, Buterin countered that he remains optimistic about cybersecurity over the long term. He identified the main challenge as managing the transition period rather than any fundamental collapse. According to him, Bitcoin should handle most problems that don't require changes to the network's social consensus.