Bitcoin is about to give miners a 16% lifeline, but $19 billion in AI deals is luring them away anyway

Bitcoin could lower mining difficulty by roughly 16% when its next adjustment arrives around July 26, handing the machines that remain online a considerably larger expected share of the network’s rewards while doing almost nothing to resolve the expensive power contracts, debt obligations and strategic pressures pushing some of the industry’s largest companies away from […] The post Bitcoin is about to give miners a 16% lifeline, but $19 billion in AI deals is luring them away anyway appeared fi