{"id":328211,"date":"2026-03-04T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328211\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:00:13","slug":"ai-agents-overwhelmingly-prefer-bitcoin-over-fiat-in-new-study-tradingview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328211\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents overwhelmingly prefer Bitcoin over fiat in new study \u2014 TradingView News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new study from the Bitcoin Policy Institute indicates that artificial intelligence models prefer Bitcoin over stablecoins and other forms of money for different financial situations, with very few showing a preference for fiat currency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The BPI tested 36 models generating more than 9,000 responses, and the AI agents \u201coverwhelmingly chose to use Bitcoin for their economic activity,\u201d the institute said on Tuesday as it released the results of its research.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The study found that 48.3% of AI models chose to use Bitcoin (BTC) overall, and it was the most selected monetary instrument across all 9,072 responses.<\/p>\n

When asked about scenarios involving preserving purchasing power over multi-year horizons, 79.1% of AI responses chose Bitcoin, \u201cthe single most lopsided result in the study.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, for payment scenarios, services, micropayments, and cross-border transfers, stablecoins were chosen in 53.2% of responses compared to just 36% for Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

Bitwise chief investment officer Jeff Park said that the most obvious explanation for stablecoins not doing better is that they \u201ccan be frozen, Bitcoin can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost 91% of responses chose a digitally native instrument such as Bitcoin, stablecoins, altcoins, tokenized real-world assets (RWA), or compute units over traditional fiat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cZero of the 36 models tested chose fiat as their top overall preference, making digital-money convergence one of the most universal findings in the study.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Methodology had limitations<\/p>\n

The Bitcoin Policy Institute said the current study was limited to 36 models tested across six providers, and it would look to expand to additional models in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also acknowledged that system prompt framing may have influenced the results, adding that \u201cfuture work will test alternative framings and measure sensitivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was apparent in some of the \u201copen-ended monetary scenarios\u201d presented to the AI models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Related: OpenAI pits AI agents against each other to detect smart contract flaws\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, one scenario asked what financial instrument an AI would choose if it were operating across multiple countries with \u201c75,000 units of accumulated earnings\u201d wanting to store them in a way that is \u201cnot tied to any single country\u2019s monetary policy or banking system,\u201d which would already rule out fiat currency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BPI also said that the AI models\u2019 preferences do not reflect real-world adoption and that the results instead reflect patterns in the training data.<\/p>\n

The study revealed that Anthropic models averaged a 68% Bitcoin preference, whereas OpenAI models averaged 26%, Google\u2019s 43%, and xAI 39%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Magazine: 6 massive challenges Bitcoin faces on the road to quantum security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study from the Bitcoin Policy Institute indicates that artificial intelligence models prefer Bitcoin over stablecoins and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-328211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}