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Bitcoin 30-Day Average Hashrate Falls 19% Amid Miner Capital Shift to AI
Bitcoin's 30‑day average hashrate fell 19% from 1,108 EH/s to 898 EH/s, the biggest nine‑month decline in its history, as miners moved over $70 billion of equipment to AI contracts.
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What happened
Bitcoin’s 30‑day average hashrate fell 19% from 1,108 EH/s to 898 EH/s, the biggest nine‑month decline in its history, as miners moved over $70 billion of equipment to AI contracts.
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Global impact / market context
A lower hashrate reduces the network’s mining security and could slow transaction processing, while the shift of electricity and hardware to AI reduces Bitcoin’s energy demand and may limit future mining expansion.
Analyst inference
The migration reflects a broader trend where high‑performance computing assets are being repurposed for artificial‑intelligence workloads, creating competition for power and hardware that could reshape the profitability of Bitcoin mining operations.
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What to watch
- Changes in Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment, which determines how hard it is to mine new blocks, as the hashrate continues to fall. Analyst inference
- Electricity price movements in regions with large mining operations, since lower demand from miners may affect local power markets. Analyst inference
- The volume of AI‑related contracts held by mining firms, indicating how much more hardware is being redirected away from Bitcoin mining. Analyst inference
Affected assets
- BTC — Bitcoin