Bitcoin miners sold a record 32,000 BTC in the first quarter of 2026 and signed about $70 billion in contracts to help power AI instead, marking the largest desertion by the group in the network’s history.
The exodus triggered Bitcoin’s first hash rate drop in six years, but it absorbed the shock and adjusted its difficulty, with the hash rate even recovering to a new high without missing a single block.
Bitcoin Absorbs Record Miner Exit as AI Pulls Capital Away
In a post published on X on July 6, analyst Shanaka Anslem Perera argued that Bitcoin has just passed one of the biggest real-world tests in its history after public mining companies, such as MARA, CleanSpark, Riot Platforms, Cango, Core Scientific, and Bitdeer, which were facing shrinking margins, sold more than 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026 and redirected that capital to build AI infrastructure.
For them, the math made sense, considering it cost about $80,000 to produce one BTC, a level that the cryptocurrency’s price has been
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