{"id":16402,"date":"2024-08-26T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bernstein-highlights-institutional-interest-in-bitcoin-miners\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:20:15","slug":"bernstein-highlights-institutional-interest-in-bitcoin-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bernstein-highlights-institutional-interest-in-bitcoin-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernstein Highlights Institutional Interest in Bitcoin Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Institutional investors are drawn to mining companies for their potential in the AI sector, yet they may ultimately benefit unexpectedly from a cryptocurrency bull run. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/246408\/institutional-bitcoin-miner-investors-mostly-care-about-ai-data-center-potential-not-btc-says-bernstein\">Decrypt<\/a>, citing a Bernstein report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIf our forecast of a $200,000 Bitcoin price proves accurate, investors will come for AI but may end up enjoying the bull market, though they did not expect it,\u201d experts noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/INSTITUTIONAL-INTEREST-GFX-1024x515.jpg\" alt=\"INSTITUTIONAL-INTEREST-GFX\" class=\"wp-image-239664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/INSTITUTIONAL-INTEREST-GFX-1024x515.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/INSTITUTIONAL-INTEREST-GFX-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/INSTITUTIONAL-INTEREST-GFX-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/INSTITUTIONAL-INTEREST-GFX.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Institutional share in public mining companies as of Q1 2024 and the current moment. Data: Decrypt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In their view, miners hold a \u201cunique position\u201d in high-performance computing (HPC) due to significant energy resources and strategic locations.<\/p>\n<p>Bernstein specialists believe that cryptocurrency miners have a substantial advantage over traditional data centers in terms of infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that miners in the US will have an operational capacity of 6 GW by the end of the year, reaching 12 GW by 2027. The industry also has experience in organizing high-density operations (70-80 kW per rack), meeting the power requirements for AI computations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/POWER-CONNECT-GFX-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"POWER-CONNECT-GFX\" class=\"wp-image-239665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/POWER-CONNECT-GFX-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/POWER-CONNECT-GFX-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/POWER-CONNECT-GFX-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/POWER-CONNECT-GFX.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Forecast of power available to miners. Data: Decrypt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many miners have established their operations in unconventional locations with abundant electricity and available land. This approach has led to the creation of extensive facilities covering hundreds of hectares and capacities ranging from 100 MW to 1 GW, experts emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, miners employ sophisticated methods to reduce electricity costs to achieve profitability, including hedging strategies on wholesale markets and various forms of collaboration with utilities and network operators.<\/p>\n<p>Back in a report by VanEck, Bitcoin miners could gain approximately $13.9 billion in additional annual revenue if they shift 20% of their energy capacity to the AI and HPC sector by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>According to JPMorgan, Bitcoin miners&#8217; revenue from block production is estimated to be ~$37 billion over the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institutional investors are drawn to mining companies for their potential in the AI sector, yet they may ultimately benefit unexpectedly from a cryptocurrency bull run. This is reported by Decrypt, citing a Bernstein report. \u201cIf our forecast of a $200,000 Bitcoin price proves accurate, investors will come for AI but may end up enjoying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1137,1252],"class_list":["post-16402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}