{"id":589843,"date":"2026-04-26T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=809503"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:30:29","slug":"miners-beat-bitcoin-by-70-in-2026-as-terawulf-locks-12-8b-in-ai-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/miners-beat-bitcoin-by-70-in-2026-as-terawulf-locks-12-8b-in-ai-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners Beat Bitcoin by 70% in 2026 as Terawulf Locks $12.8B in AI Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/miners-beat-bitcoin-by-70-in-2026-as-terawulf-locks-12-8b-in-ai-contracts-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Miners Beat Bitcoin by 70% in 2026 as Terawulf Locks $12.8B in AI Contracts\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure sector has had a split personality through the first four months of 2026. Bitcoin itself opened the year around $88,700 and has spent most of its time grinding lower, sitting around $76,000 to $78,000 as April comes to a close, a loss of roughly 12% since January 1. Against [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure sector has had a split personality through the first four months of 2026. Bitcoin itself opened the year around $88,700 and has spent most of its time grinding lower, sitting around $76,000 to $78,000 as April comes to a close, a loss of roughly 12% since January 1. Against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-589843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured","9":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}