Bitfarms to Wind Down Bitcoin Mining Operations, Announces AI Pivot
Bitfarms’ CEO Ben Gagnon announced that the company was focused on abandoning the bitcoin mining business and converting its sites to support artificial intelligence workloads in the following two years. The company’s fa...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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