2025 Is the Year of the AI/HPC Miner w/ Kevin Dede

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s Bitcoin Stock Show, Kevin Dede, a managing director of equity research at investment bank H.C. Wainwright, joins to discuss AI/HPC hybrid bitcoin miners vs. pure-play ones – specifically, which strategy Dede is bullish on for 2025 and beyond. We touch on what the $500 billion project Stargate means for bitcoin miner AI aspirations, what he thinks of Riot and Bitfarms evaluating their sites for an AI retrofit, which miners he favors in the AI race, and more. 

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