Bitcoin’s Network Hashrate Is 50% Below Trend as Miners Shift to AI
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Mining operators reallocating rigs from Bitcoin to AI workloads is a clear repricing of compute toward inference and training economics. If you depend on GPU or power availability, treat former crypto infrastructure as a competitive bidder in your capacity planning, not a separate market.
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