BAES 139: Why AI is Crashing Bitcoin and Stocks

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Ben and Emil

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0	Being an adult sucks.
0:02.0	Adults, they have to work all day.
0:05.0	When adults get male, it's always bills and bills suck.
0:11.0	Sure, but we've got a driver's license.
0:13.0	Enjoy 4.9% APR representative with up to four years free servicing on the Alpine A290 plus range at your Alpine store.
0:21.1	PCP, mobilized financial services, order between the 6th and the 23rd of February
0:24.6	2006. TNC supply. Visit Alpine-cafons.com.uk for more information.
0:30.1	Crypto crashing. Is it over? Is crypto over?
0:34.0	Yeah, is it over? We've had crypto for over 10 years, 15 years almost.
0:39.3	And they've had all this time to prove their worth.
0:42.7	A hedge against inflation, a hedge against, you know, the dollar.
0:46.5	Oh, the only thing it's proven to be over the, uh, over those 15 years is a speculative
0:51.7	asset.
0:52.1	As we've been saying with AI, the biggest thing is all of that money that otherwise was
0:56.6	going into all these useless crypto projects the last few years, all of that money is now
1:01.1	shifting to where the action is, which is in AI and robotics.
1:05.4	And prediction markets.
1:06.8	It's a lot more tangible.
1:09.0	You're also taking away people's livelihoods, okay?
1:11.0	There's only like three jobs left.
1:12.8	It's like Uber driver,
1:17.0	Polymarket, you know,
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