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2026-10-16：Spot Resilience Defies Macro Gravity as AI Agent Settlement Layers Spark Capital Rotation
Beneath Bitcoin's deceptive stability above $82,000, an invisible crisis is unfolding at the protocol level. A sudden 5.9 percent difficulty adjustment has evaporated miner margins, while transaction fee revenue has collapsed to a microscopic fraction of rewards. Are mid-tier operators on the brink of dumping hundreds of millions in Bitcoin reserves directly onto the market? Meanwhile, institutional capital is quietly abandoning Ethereum to the tune of sixty million dollars a day, yet an explosive 30 percent rotation is pouring into experimental chains built entirely for autonomous AI agents…
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