Oracle’s Bad Earnings Just Dragged Bitcoin Under $90K – Here’s Why It Matter

Summary

Oracle shocked the market on December 11, 2025 with weaker-than-expected earnings. The company is pouring $50 billion into new AI data centers, mostly paid for by borrowing money. Its stock crashed $80 billion in one day. The same day, Bitcoin instantly dropped below $90,000. Why? In 2025, Bitcoin has become tightly linked to big AI stocks like Nvidia and Oracle – when they sneeze, Bitcoin catches a cold… and usually a worse one.

What It Means

A year ago people called Bitcoin “digital gold” because it moved on its own. That story is over. Today Bitcoin acts like the most risky AI stock in the room. When a giant company like Oracle says “we are spending $50 billion on AI servers but sales are not growing fast enough”, investors get scared. They sell Oracle shares, they sell Nvidia, they sell everything that looks expensive and risky. Bitcoin is now seen as the most expensive and most risky of them all, so money leaves Bitcoin even faster and harder.

The numbers are scary-simple: Bitcoin’s daily moves match Nvidia’s moves 96 % of the time this year. AI companies together borrowed more than $125 billion in 2025 just to build data centers. If those data centers don’t start making real money soon, banks and investors will stop lending more. When lending stops, prices fall – and Bitcoin always falls the most because everyone uses it as the “easy button” to reduce risk quickly.

In short: Bitcoin is no longer a safe haven. It has become the warning light for the whole AI party. When the party gets too wild, Bitcoin is the first one to get hurt.

Key Takeaways

• One bad AI earnings day = instant Bitcoin dip

• Too much debt in AI is now a warning light for crypto

• Bitcoin currently moves 2–3× stronger than the Nasdaq

• The next 3–4 big AI earnings reports can easily swing Bitcoin $10K+

• Smart move: don’t hold heavy crypto + heavy Nvidia/AMD at the same time

• If AI companies actually deliver profits → everything pumps again

Our Take (2026 outlook) * Speculative

January and February will be make-or-break. Two more weak AI reports → Bitcoin can test $70–75K fast. Two strong ones → we break $110K before spring.

References

Reuters ⋅ CoinDesk ⋅ Bloomberg (Dec 11–12, 2025)

Download Report