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Bitcoin miners are oversold following 35% October rout, VanEck says

Open the sourceReported by CoinDesk, coindesk.com, 5 November 2026, by Jamie Crawley
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VanEck said Bitcoin miners are oversold after the group fell 35% in October, a rout driven by investors dumping AI infrastructure providers indiscriminately rather than by miner-specific fundamentals. The firm argued the selloff conflated distinct sectors—mining and AI data-center operators—into a single trade, leaving miners trading below levels their operations justify. The drawdown comes as miners continue pivoting toward AI and high-performance computing hosting to diversify revenue beyond block rewards. VanEck's call implies a potential valuation disconnect between miners' hash-rate economics and the AI-infrastructure narrative that dragged the sector down. What to watch next is whether miners' third-quarter earnings and AI hosting contract announcements restore differentiation from pure AI infrastructure names.

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