Hut 8 Secures Google-Backed Deal To Build Out AI Capacity

Hut 8 Corp. announced a sweeping AI infrastructure partnership on Wednesday with AI model developer Anthropic and compute provider Fluidstack, marking a pretty clear signal that the bitcoin miner is pivoting to a large-scale energy and data center developer.

Under the agreement, Hut 8 will develop between 245 megawatts (MW) and up to 2,295 MW of AI-focused data center capacity in the United States, beginning with a flagship project at its River Bend campus in Louisiana. 

The partnership is structured across multiple tranches, creating a pathway to scale from an initial deployment to gigawatt-level infrastructure over time.

The first phase centers on a 245 MW IT deployment at River…

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Anthony Scaramucci Says The World Spends $4 Trillion A Year Verifying Transactions And Solana Could Slash That Cost By 75%

Anthony Scaramucci, CEO of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, said at a recent event that Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-powered asset tokenization has the potential to reduce transaction verification costs by up to 75% annually.

Scaramucci Builds Case For Solana-Enabled Tokenization

Speaking at the LONGITIDE event in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 11, Scaramucci estimated that global transaction verification costs $4 trillion a year, including credit card fees and wire fees.

“If we were able to adopt Solana and use it in the process of tokenizing assets, you could save probably 75 percent of that,” the vocal cryptocurrency advocate said.

Exact worldwide figures are tough to ascertain due to varying regional…

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How Abundant Mines Redefined Uptime And Protected Millions In Client Bitcoin Rewards

Hood River County, Oregon – December 16th, 2025 – This month last year, Abundant Mines quietly began to launch a feature that would go on to change how the bitcoin mining industry defines performance. Today, the company is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Hashrate Redirect™, a pioneering system that ensures clients continue earning bitcoin even when their machines are offline.

For too long, mining providers have misled customers with uptime metrics that measure whether a facility has power, not whether a machine is actually hashing. A rig could be powered off, broken, or awaiting repairs and still count toward a provider’s claimed “98% uptime.” The result is lost…

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Bitcoin Price Falls To $87,000, Market Sits In Extreme Fear

Bitcoin price hovered above $87,000 today as market sentiment and the Crypto Fear and Greed Index plunged to 11 out of 100, a level signaling extreme fear among investors.

At the time of writing, the bitcoin price is trading at $87,696, up roughly 2% over the past 24 hours, according to market data. Despite the modest rebound, BTC remains trapped in a choppy consolidation range, sitting just 0.2% below its seven-day high of $87,918 and 2% above its weekly low near $85,575.

Yesterday, the bitcoin price cratered from close to $90,000 to the mid $85,000s.

Trading volume over the past day totaled approximately $51 billion, suggesting continued participation but little conviction on either…

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Bitwise Predicts New All-Time Highs For Bitcoin In 2026

Asset manager Bitwise released a new report that argues that bitcoin is poised to break from its historical four-year market cycle, setting new all-time highs in 2026 while becoming less volatile and less correlated with equities.

Bitwise’s Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougen outlined three forecasts he says matter most for crypto investors: the end of the four-year cycle, continued volatility compression, and declining correlation between BTC and traditional stock markets.

The four-year cycle is ‘significantly weaker’

Bitcoin has historically followed a four-year pattern tied to the halving cycle, typically marked by three years of gains followed by a sharp pullback. Under that…

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