MAROKO133 Update ai: Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse Edisi Jam 15:48

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The OG cryptocurrency Bitcoin is having a horrible month.

The token has wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars in total market value, dropping below $92,000 for the first time since mid-April. That’s despite soaring to an all-time high of over $126,000 a mere six weeks ago.

It’s been a bruising couple of weeks — and nobody is entirely clear on why.

Even Bloomberg admitted that “Bitcoin has fallen fast, hard, and with no clear trigger.”

One prevailing theory is economic uncertainty over dwindling hope that the US Federal Reserve will lower interest rates next month. A lower rate usually leads to increased liquidity and more willingness to invest in more risky assets, like crypto.

“The general market is risk-off,” Bitwise Asset Management chief investment officer Matthew Hougan told Bloomberg. “Crypto was the canary in the coal mine for that, it was the first to flinch.”

Experts say it’s likely that there are several factors at play.

“The selloff is a confluence of profit-taking by [long-term holders], institutional outflows, macro uncertainty, and leveraged longs getting wiped out,” Nansen senior research analyst Jake Kennis told Bloomberg. “What is clear is that the market has temporarily chosen a downward direction after a long period of consolidation/ranging.”

The fall has led investors to question the long-held assumption that Bitcoin was a hedge against inflation, as NBC News reports, with the digital currency’s crash accompanying — not defying — a larger sell-off in the buzzy-but-tenuous AI market.

Complicating matters is the government shutdown in the US, which recently ended, but has caused important economic data releases, including job and inflation reports, to be delayed.

Analysts are worried Bitcoin could continue its already steep slide.

“We have to be honest: this correction may not be finished… if equities roll over we could easily retest the low $70Ks, maybe briefly below,” digital asset solutions company Hex Trust CEO Alessio Quaglini told NBC.

The latest crash has defied president Donald Trump’s wholehearted embrace of the crypto community, allowing it to make major gains over this year. The White House has pursued the deregulation of crypto, while establishing legal frameworks for stablecoins. The Trump administration has also suggested the establishment of a strategic Bitcoin reserve.

But despite all that enthusiasm, Trump may have found a much bigger enemy in the form of escalating economic uncertainty that’s scaring investors away from highly volatile assets, largely as a result of his own actions.

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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Harvard Scientist Suspicious About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins Fire

As we await high-resolution images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that it could be an alien spacecraft speeding through the solar system.

While there’s a broad consensus among scientists that 3I/ATLAS is most likely a comet predominantly made up of carbon dioxide, Loeb has pointed out its unusual chemical makeup, its close visits to several planets, and its enormous size, among other factors, to argue that it could be a technological artifact sent by an extraterrestrial civilization.

And now he’s firing back at critics, saying that he’s still suspicious of the object’s origins and that more data is needed.

“The verdict is still out, and I’m very much looking forward to getting more data in the coming weeks,” he told NewsNation over the weekend.

“You know, that’s the way science should be done,” he added. “It’s like a detective story, and any of my colleagues who claim to know it’s a comet of a type that is familiar to us is not really curious or imaginative about nature.”

“Let’s wait, then check what the subject is in the coming weeks rather than give the verdict now,” he concluded.

3I/ATLAS is expected to come within just 170 million miles of Earth — its closest pass of our planet — on December 19, allowing us to get a close look as it makes its way back out of the solar system. It will also make a close pass of Jupiter in March, which could allow spacecraft in the vicinity to gather even more data about it.

Following delays caused by the government shutdown, NASA is rumored to be releasing images of the rare visitor that were taken by the HiRISE camera attached to its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in the coming days. 3I/ATLAS passed by the Red Planet in early October, but the data was caught up in red tape as operations at the agency ground to a halt.

“Let’s just keep our fingers crossed,” Loeb told NewsNation, referring to the release of the images.

“Sharing of scientific data should have been prioritized over bureaucratic rules, because the data is time-sensitive as we plan additional observations of 3I/ATLAS,” he wrote in a recent blog post.

In a blog post earlier this month, Loeb argued that the HiRISE images could help us hone in on the object’s size, which he suspects could be as large as 3.1 miles across, with an estimated mass of more than 33 billion tons.

While Loeb’s claims that 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spacecraft that’s currently firing its thrusters to get out of the solar system as fast as possible have drawn considerable skepticism among experts, the astronomer is holding onto his convictions.

Loeb has previously admitted that 3I/ATLAS is most likely a comet. However, he refuses to rule out the possibility of a far more exotic hypothesis, putting him at odds with the broader scientific community.

“The truth about the nature of 3I/ATLAS will be revealed by publicly shared data and not by any storyline of gatekeepers,” Loeb added in his blog post.

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