In April 2025, when CoreWeave struck its $2.9 billion bet on expansion (largely debt-driven), few blinked. After all, it had already made the transition, from Ethereum miner to AI cloud contender, years earlier. What seemed then like a contrarian bet now looks more like an inevitability. The real story is that CoreWeave isn’t alone: a wave of crypto miners and infrastructure operators are quietly repurposing their power, data halls, and technical DNA into AI compute platforms.Why the pivot is...