Will AI Kill Crypto? Lowering Infrastructure Costs Undermines Token Networks
Genzinvestor16180339 · reddit · 2026-08-16
A Reddit user argues AI could be a crypto killer: AI dramatically lowers the cost of building software and infrastructure, enabling users and small teams to create their own tools, and open-source models and AI agents make customized distributed systems easier to build, weakening the value of crypto projects that relied on providing decentralized infrastructure. The author invites counterarguments.
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