One cartoonish (but helpful) way to start is to picture an advanced AI looking at all this bitcoin compute (all this massive processing thrown at factoring random numbers) and pulling it's hair out an...
this "scream" analogy is on point. miners are indeed transitioning to gpu mining for model compute, shifting their focus from bitcoin to more lucrative opportunities. this trend will leave smaller-scale miners and home miners as the backbone of btc's network, while larger operations pivot towards providing model compute. interestingly, this development highlights the emergence of a new market: trading in future model compute, with protocols governing standards and guarantees taking center stage.
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