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VanEck has released a framework that repositions Bitcoin miners as AI infrastructure assets, applying a valuation lens to the sector that moves beyond conventional hash-rate and $BTC price metrics.
The asset manager's analysis signals a growing institutional effort to find common ground between two capital-intensive industries — cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence compute.
A New Valuation Angle for an Old Mining Playbook Bitcoin miners have traditionally been valued as leveraged proxies for $BTC: when the token rises, mining stocks amplify the move; when it falls, they crater faster.
VanEck's framework challenges that single-variable read by treating miners through the lens of AI infrastructure — a category that commands different multiples, different growth narratives, and different comparables on Wall Street.
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