#Bitcoin miners sound the alarm: Is AI the new way out?

Many Bitcoin miners are struggling to become profitable in this market debate due to diminishing returns. This could lead them to shift towards AI storage or evaluate export assets.

Bitcoin (BTC) miners have spent years largely generating energy in low-efficiency energy markets, and now they find themselves "sitting right on top of what the AI ​​industry most urgently needs and can't easily replicate."

While a shift towards AI is a compelling option for Bitcoin mining, which is a "structurally rigid business model," it is also a "radical and capital-intensive step."

This started with a mining giant becoming the latest company to consider moving towards AI. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 3rd, the company revealed its intention to sell a portion of its BTC to fund this technology. Meanwhile, publicly traded miners have sold over 15,000 Bitcoins since the planting.
Miners' continued holding of Bitcoin is a "legacy of the HODL era"

Bitcoin miners collectively hold approximately 1% of the total BTC supply. This is considered a legacy of the HODL era and a situation where "the entire set of treasury management tools remains largely unused."

Income generation in crypto has traditionally been limited to staking and DeFi. However, miners can generate returns through active management by cashing out market risk via derivatives, covered call strategies, and cash-backed put options.

Passive management options include channeling BTC into lending protocols to earn interest income.
Miners who view their BTC holdings as a working asset rather than a passive reserve will enter the next halving with a robust advantage.

For the first time in a four-year market, Bitcoin has failed to deliver the double price return that would offset the revenue cuts caused by the halving, and gross margins have peaked at performance previously signaling bear market lows.

Additionally, the transaction fee market has also failed to fill the gaps because these revenues are "cyclical, not structural." Simultaneously, energy consumption continues to put pressure on margins.

This breakthrough is seen as different from previous cycles in 2018 and 2022. Accordingly, this situation provides a "healthy success" consistent with Bitcoin's design and consequently makes the mining sector "more efficient."
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