Bitcoin News
By Evie Vavasseur
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The Inverse Cramer Trade Lives On. Crypto traders didn't miss that. The "inverse Cramer" meme — basically, do the opposite of…
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Quantum Risk and the $100 Million Coldcard Exploit. The quantum computing concern is real, and the crypto industry knows it.
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Jim Cramer sold his Bitcoin. All of it. The CNBC host made the call after sitting down with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, who told him quantum computers could crack cryptocurrency…
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That's a short runway. Krishna's warning wasn't buried in a research paper or whispered at some private briefing — it came straight out of a live interview, and Cramer said he…
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Bitcoin went up 1.6% the day he announced the sale.
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Crypto traders didn't miss that. The "inverse Cramer" meme — basically, do the opposite of whatever Cramer does — came roaring back almost immediately. It's not a new joke.
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Cramer's timing has been rough before. Probably will be again. Or maybe not — that's kind of the whole thing with quantum computing.
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The quantum computing concern is real, and the crypto industry knows it. Current encryption methods underpinning Bitcoin and most other blockchains weren't designed with…
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And it's not just theoretical. The Coldcard exploit, attributed to AI, wiped out more than $100 million.
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Read also: AIs Bigger Threat to Bitcoin: 4 Custody Layers Already Cracked
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Some protocols aren't waiting around. ZEC has started using advanced AI to hunt for vulnerabilities in its cryptographic systems and patch them before they get exploited.
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Blockchain security teams are under real pressure. The Coldcard incident rattled developers across the space — losses that size tend to do that.
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Krishna's remarks put a specific number on something the industry had mostly been treating as a distant problem. Three to four years isn't distant.
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Cramer's decision to sell may end up looking prescient or it may add another chapter to the inverse Cramer legend. But the underlying concern he's reacting to isn't going away.
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More context: On-Chain Signals Suggest Bitcoin Accumulation During Modest Gains
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