The post Bitcoin Miners Are Moving from BTC to Artifical Intelligence (AI) Amid Higher Demand appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Although the price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to be under selling pressure, BTC miners are having a boom period while tapping into new opportunities in the recently booming artificial intelligence (AI) space. A large number of miners have put their mining rigs for use in AI, amid a solid demand. As energy costs rise and halving reduces block rewards, Bitcoin miners are redefining their business models. Rather than focusing solely on minting new coins, many are now leasing their high-performance hardware to train large language models, run AI inference workloads, and host cloud computing services. This doesn’t seem to be the end of mining, but rather marks the beginning of a new kind of mining boom. Bitcoin Miner’s Pivot to AI Comes As Halving Rewards Drop Bitcoin’s April 2024 halving slashed mining rewards in half, intensifying pressure on an industry already burdened by soaring electricity costs. The average hashprice i.e. the daily revenue earned per terahash, has plunged from $0.12 in early 2024 to below $0.05 by mid-2025, leaving many miners struggling to remain profitable. With electricity accounting for up to 90% of operating costs and price volatility eroding margins, miners have been forced to seek new, more stable revenue streams. The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has created a massive demand for computing power, and Bitcoin miners are uniquely positioned to meet it. Tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI face long timelines to build new data centers. Miners are at an advantage here as they already control large-scale energy contracts, cooling systems, and industrial hardware that can be repurposed for AI training and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. According to VanEck analysts, Bitcoin miners could generate as much as $38 billion in annual revenue by redirecting part of their infrastructure toward AI and HPC operations, a return up to… The post Bitcoin Miners Are Moving from BTC to Artifical Intelligence (AI) Amid Higher Demand appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Although the price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to be under selling pressure, BTC miners are having a boom period while tapping into new opportunities in the recently booming artificial intelligence (AI) space. A large number of miners have put their mining rigs for use in AI, amid a solid demand. As energy costs rise and halving reduces block rewards, Bitcoin miners are redefining their business models. Rather than focusing solely on minting new coins, many are now leasing their high-performance hardware to train large language models, run AI inference workloads, and host cloud computing services. This doesn’t seem to be the end of mining, but rather marks the beginning of a new kind of mining boom. Bitcoin Miner’s Pivot to AI Comes As Halving Rewards Drop Bitcoin’s April 2024 halving slashed mining rewards in half, intensifying pressure on an industry already burdened by soaring electricity costs. The average hashprice i.e. the daily revenue earned per terahash, has plunged from $0.12 in early 2024 to below $0.05 by mid-2025, leaving many miners struggling to remain profitable. With electricity accounting for up to 90% of operating costs and price volatility eroding margins, miners have been forced to seek new, more stable revenue streams. The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has created a massive demand for computing power, and Bitcoin miners are uniquely positioned to meet it. Tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI face long timelines to build new data centers. Miners are at an advantage here as they already control large-scale energy contracts, cooling systems, and industrial hardware that can be repurposed for AI training and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. According to VanEck analysts, Bitcoin miners could generate as much as $38 billion in annual revenue by redirecting part of their infrastructure toward AI and HPC operations, a return up to…

                                                                               Powell said the Federal Open Market Committee is weighing interest rates on a meeting-by-meeting basis, with no long-term consensus.                     US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the 19 members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) remain divided on additional interest rate cuts in 2025.At Wednesday’s press conference after the Fed’s 25-basis-point rate cut, Powell said the central bank is trying to balance its dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability in an unusual environment where the labor market is weakening even as inflation remains elevated. Powell said:Powell said that the “median” FOMC projection from the Federal Reserve’s Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), the Fed’s quarterly outlook for the US economy that informs interest rate decisions, projected interest rates at 3.6% at the end of 2025, 3.4% by the end of 2026, and 3.1% at the end of 2027.Read more