# The Great Pivot in Mining: Inside the Miner-to-GPU Migration

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Podcast: [Web3 Tech Brief By HackerNoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365654)
Published: 2026-05-09T16:00:52+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ce557425
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-great-pivot-in-mining-inside-the-miner-to-gpu-migration . For years, Bitcoin (BTC) mining was the obvious way to monetize access to cheap electricity, fast deployment, and high-density capacity. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3 . You can also check exclusive content about #web3 , #mining , #gpu , #pool-mining , #asic-mining , #emcd , #miner-to-gpu-migration , #bitcoin-mining , and more. This story was written by: @MichaelJerlis . Learn more about this writer by checking @MichaelJerlis's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . The same substations. The same cooling corridors. The same industrial shell, built to turn cheap power into compute. But inside a growing number of large mining sites in 2026, the shift is clear: ASICs are coming out, and GPUs are going in.

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