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Bitcoin's 23% Rally Sent Beaten-Down Miners Past the AI Stocks
Canaan, American Bitcoin and Cango jumped as much as 67%, reversing the market's preference for miners pivoting into AI.
The Chip Crash Is Redrawing Bitcoin Miners' AI Pivot Math
Miners spent two years selling megawatts to the AI boom. July's $2 trillion semiconductor rout is forcing a rethink of what that optionality is worth.
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits All-Time High Eleven Months After the Halving
The hashrate has fully absorbed the reward cut. New ASIC deployments in West Texas and Ethiopia are pushing the network's compute toward a new equilibrium.
Ethiopia's Bitcoin Mining Capacity Doubles on Renaissance Dam Power
The country's total hashrate reached 4.1 EH/s in March, making it the fastest-growing mining jurisdiction in the world. The government sees the industry as a dollar-earning export.
Post-Halving Mining Economics Are Forcing New Revenue Models Into the Open
Hash-backed lending, block template auctions, and MEV-style extraction are all being built out simultaneously. The pure-hashrate-for-block-reward model is not enough at current margins.