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Public Bitcoin miners have collectively cut their hashrate by 13.4%, as AI and high-performance computing revenue draws power capacity and data centers away from $BTC production. The case for the pivot is building.
What complicates it is that a smaller group of public miners is moving in the opposite direction. What's changed is where the infrastructure goes.
Operators are repurposing power and data center assets to serve AI and HPC clients, a reallocation that is reshaping the economics of public Bitcoin mining. The 13.4% figure reflects actual capital decisions.
Those kinds of moves carry switching costs. The counterargument has a real claim. A smaller cohort of public miners continues to expand Bitcoin capacity, which means the hashrate reduction is not a sector-wide retreat.
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