Bitcoin miners sink millions into AI business, seek billions in return

Bitcoin miners sink millions into AI business, seek billions in return

Bitcoin miner Core Scientific announced plans to significantly expand its AI business. The deal with cloud provider CoreWeave is expected to add revenue of over $3.5 billion over 12 years. Many bitcoin mining firms have been retrofitting existing facilities to service AI clients as revenue from crypto mining plummets. Core Scientific’s 104 megawatt Bitcoin mining …

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Bitcoin Hashrate Hit New High This Week as Miners Shake Off Halving

Bitcoin Hashrate Hit New High This Week as Miners Shake Off Halving

Bitcoin’s Bitcoin network hashrate hit an all-time high this week, roughly one month out from Bitcoin’s most recent halving. This quadrennial event — which cut the number of newly issued bitcoin per block from 6.25 to 3.125 — has historically encumbered bitcoin miners with sagging margins and hindered hashrate growth. But 2024’s bullish market and …

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Understanding Web3 And Its Impact On The Internet And Society

Understanding Web3 And Its Impact On The Internet And Society

Understanding Web3 And Its Impact On The Internet And Society getty The internet landscape, often called Web2, has revolutionized global communication, commerce, and entertainment. Platforms such as Meta, YouTube, and Amazon have seamlessly integrated into our daily routines, facilitating effortless content creation, sharing, and connectivity. Despite this familiarity, a 2022 Harvard Business Review poll revealed …

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How Scrappy Cryptominer CoreWeave Transformed Into the Multibillion-Dollar Backbone of the AI Boom

How Scrappy Cryptominer CoreWeave Transformed Into the Multibillion-Dollar Backbone of the AI Boom

Fulfilling the world’s surging demand for AI chatbots and image generators depends on mundane components as much as glitzy GPUs. Server cabinets, heavy-duty metal enclosures to store GPU systems, have at times been a crucial bottleneck. As it scrambled to build up its facilities, CoreWeave once ordered 1,400 of the wrong cabinets. It was a …

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A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

As a test of their resulting AI tool, the researchers checked its outputs with one cryptocurrency exchange—which the paper doesn’t name—identifying 52 suspicious chains of transactions that had all ultimately flowed into that exchange. The exchange, it turned out, had already flagged 14 of the accounts that had received those funds for suspected illicit activity, …

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ARK says it’s a unique time to invest

ARK says it’s a unique time to invest

ARK Invest’s chief futurist lists five groups that should give tech investors an edge. According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-omics sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they’re all entering the marketplace at the same time. “We believe that this is a unique time in technological economic history,” he told …

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AI is Bitcoin mining’s next frontier after ‘halving’ event

AI is Bitcoin mining’s next frontier after ‘halving’ event

After successfully completing its “halving,” Bitcoin is sitting strongly at $66,000, and crypto stocks are in celebration mode.  TSMC beat on Q2 sales expectations driven by AI boom, Nvidia, and Apple Now people are wondering what will happen to Bitcoin miners given that the reward has decreased from 6.25 Bitcoin to 3.125 Bitcoin. Some are saying …

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Bitcoin miners get into AI to survive halving

Bitcoin miners get into AI to survive halving

The bitcoin halving took effect late on Friday, cutting the issuance of new bitcoin in half. Bitcoin miners have spent years diversifying their business models and upgrading their facilitates to brace for the cut to revenues. Some mining firms have diversified into supporting the underlying infrastructure necessary for artificial intelligence. AUSTIN, TEXAS — Adam Sullivan …

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