Investors continue to pay a premium for miners diversifying into AI and HPC data centers, despite pure-play miners gaining market share.Marathon produced more bitcoin in September than in any other month since the April halving.
However, investors aren't paying a premium for their stocks, as they continued to underperform in September. Meanwhile, miners putting focus on AI and HPC computing, such as Core Scientific , TerraWulf and IREN , beat bitcoin in September.The shift in investor sentiment isn't surprising, as the halving in April – which cut by 50% the reward for mining BTC – has made mining more competitive with narrower profit margins.