Bitcoin Below $88K Before $28B Options Expiry – Aave Founder Buys the Dip and AI Linked to 50,000 Jo

Описание: Hey Monkey Guy! Bananas ready? Welcome to Krypto News — where Bitcoin trades below $88K ahead of a record options expiry, Aave’s founder is buying his own crashing token, and AI just helped kill more than 50,000 jobs this year.

First bite: Bitcoin is grinding near $88K as the largest options expiry in Deribit history hits on Friday, with about $28 billion in BTC and ETH contracts set to expire — more than half of roughly $52 billion in open interest. The max pain level sits around $96K, where option writers would profit the most, and traders are rolling December puts into January spreads, signaling caution into year‑end. At the same time, miner capitulation is deepening, with reports of Bitcoin hashrate dropping about 4% in December, the steepest decline since earlier this year, after China shut down over 1.3 gigawatts of mining capacity. Historically, similar hashrate drops have preceded a Bitcoin bottom roughly two‑thirds of the time within about 90 days.

Meanwhile, Aave’s governance war is bleeding value. The AAVE token has crashed around 18% over the past week, making it one of the worst performers among the top 100 coins. Founder Stani Kulechov reportedly bought about $12.6 million worth of AAVE around $176 per token and is now sitting on a multi‑million‑dollar unrealized loss as the price keeps sliding. The fight is over who controls Aave’s brand and public communication channels, and unlike macro selloffs, governance conflicts create open‑ended risk with no clear timeline for resolution.

Over in AI land, OpenAI rolled out “Your Year with ChatGPT,” a Spotify Wrapped‑style recap of user conversations complete with personalized poems and awards. But the bigger story is jobs: corporate filings and announcements show AI was cited in more than 50,000 layoffs in 2025, with giants like Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce all pointing to AI as a key productivity driver behind staff reductions. One MIT study estimates current AI systems can already perform tasks equivalent to roughly 11–12% of the U.S. labor market, implying up to around $1.2 trillion in potentially automatable wages, while investors like SoftBank are reportedly working on a multibillion‑dollar funding package for OpenAI as the AI arms race accelerates.

Final swing: Galaxy Digital has warned that 2026 looks “too chaotic to predict,” but still keeps a $250K Bitcoin target by the end of 2027 on the table. Options pricing currently implies roughly balanced odds of BTC trading near $70K or $130K by mid‑2026, highlighting just how wide the cone of uncertainty is as markets head into Christmas week. Stay sharp, Banana fam.

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