The Accidental Infrastructure: How Crypto Miners Built the Foundation of the AI Boom

The Accidental Infrastructure: How Crypto Miners Built the Foundation of the AI Boom
by Jonah McLeod on 07-06-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Most crypto forty-niners died broke in a warehouse full of their computing rigs. Former Ethereum miner CoreWeave took its gold to Wall Street. On June 22, 2026, it joined the Nasdaq-100 — fifteen months after its IPO, nine years after its founders assembled their first GPU rig in a New Jersey office.

The people who built the physical… Read More