Oliver Grant
Energy, Compute & Infrastructure Reporter
Edinburgh3 articles
Oliver reports on mining economics, data-centre power contracts and the overlap between AI compute demand and decentralised infrastructure networks.
oliver@cryptoxinsights.comAreas covered
- Mining economics
- Data-centre power
- AI compute demand
- Decentralised infrastructure
Published under: Markets.
How they work
Oliver models hashprice and power contracts from published operator disclosures, and flags where an operator's own guidance differs from grid data.
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Articles by Oliver Grant
Rollup fees collapse, and the business model question gets sharper
Expanded data availability has driven layer-2 transaction fees to negligible levels, cutting sequencer revenue and reopening the question of how rollups fund themselves long term.
Decentralised compute networks meet real AI demand, and the metrics get testable
Decentralised GPU networks are reporting paid workloads rather than pilots, making utilisation rates and paid inference hours the metrics that separate genuine demand from emissions-funded activity.
Bitcoin miners pivot toward power contracts and hosted compute
Compressed hashprice has pushed listed bitcoin miners to monetise grid interconnection and power contracts through hosted compute, diversifying revenue away from block rewards.