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Amid ongoing cryptocurrency market volatility, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) model ChatGPT has placed nearly even odds on Bitcoin (BTC) slipping below the $100,000 mark before the end of 2025. At press time, Bitcoin was trading at $111,044, having plunged about 3.5% in the last 24 hours. On the weekly timeframe, BTC has dropped more than 10%. Bitcoin seven-day price chart. Source: Finbold According to the model’s projections, there is roughly a 50% chance that Bitcoin will briefly fall below $100,000 within the next two months.  However, the probability of the cryptocurrency remaining under that threshold for an extended period, more than two weeks, stands at around 20%. By contrast, the likelihood of Bitcoin avoiding any such decline through year-end is estimated at 30%. Odds of Bitcoin dropping below $100,000. Source: ChatGPT The model cited possible triggers for a drop below $100,000, including macroeconomic shocks, tighter monetary policy, m...

Mastercard and Chainlink (LINK) are partnering to enable Mastercard cardholders to purchase cryptocurrency directly on-chain. The two companies shared the announcement on Tuesday morning, signaling a “major step forward in the mainstream adoption of Web3.” JUST IN: Mastercard partners with Chainlink to "enable billions of cardholders to purchase crypto directly onchain." pic.twitter.com/KXbkQKE694 — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) June 24, 2025 “This is the type of traditional finance and decentralized finance convergence that Chainlink was built to make possible. I’m excited about Chainlink’s ability to enable this critical connection between the traditional payments world and the over three billion cardholders in the Mastercard user base, directly into the next generation trading environments of onchain decentralized exchanges,” said Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink. “It has been great collaborating closely with the Mastercard team on...