Bitcoin’s fifth halving is two years out, as miners sell coins, cut costs and build AI and power infrastructure to survive record hashrate and tighter regulation.

Bitcoin mining is much more centralized than how it began, while AI may decentralize via edge computing, per Galaxy Research and Grand View Research data.

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