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Author reviews another fund's 13F holdings as a factual comparison to their own portfolio, noting overlap but not stating new positions or forward calls on any ticker.

The author notes Bitcoin miners are attempting to find a bottom but explicitly states there is no confirmation yet, keeping them on watch rather than taking a directional position.

Notes datacenter and mining stocks are down following reports that Citadel offloaded 80% of its positions in the sector.

Buy WULF/RIOT/CRWV/AKAM as the listed direct-contractor names that should benefit most from a public Anthropic S-1.

Notes RIOT, MARA, CLSK, and KEEL hold land and secured power that could make them consolidation or acquisition targets as AI infrastructure development proceeds.

Author asks if Variational can list several crypto and AI-related tickers, a speculative inquiry without directional positioning or trade calls.

The author presents AI compute as a multi-winner market and suggests buying the NCLD ETF or picking individual holdings, but frames it as an option rather than a personal position.

Analyzes Q2 13F showing Aschenbrenner built new positions in power, neoclouds, and bitcoin miners as compute inputs.

Author confidently defends IREN against haters and argues AI data center demand outpaces power supply, framing IREN as underpriced while listing other miners as watch.

HPC and cloud datacenter operators are essential physical dependencies required to keep AI chips running.

Buy AI infrastructure and Bitcoin mining/hosting names — NBIS, IREN, CIFR, WULF, RIOT — because AI demand scales at software speed while power and grid supply is constrained by years-long real-world timelines (grid queues, steel, concrete), creating a structural mispricing the market has not yet recognized.

Druckenmiller holds existing positions in RIOT as part of a broader sector allocation; author cites this as evidence of growing institutional interest in the crypto mining/infrastructure space.

Author is bullish on NVDA ahead of earnings, citing hyperscaler capex, neocloud deals, and technical buy signals as catalysts for the entire AI stack.

The author reports past stock returns from a liquidation event without expressing any forward-looking position, so all tickers are indexed as watch.

Identifies power infrastructure and bitcoin mining companies as beneficiaries of rising data center electricity demand.

Author reports a fund's Q2 position changes, listing new holdings and full exits of puts and equities across semis and power names, but frames it as a factual disclosure rather than a personal forward-looking trade call.

Major Bitcoin miners are selling large amounts of Bitcoin this year to fund an AI data center pivot: major miners cut holdings by about 28,000 BTC from 127,000 to 99,000; Riot sold 4,300 BTC after signing a power deal with Anthropic, and Marathon sold about 20,000 BTC in H1. The existing Bitcoin mining rigs cannot run AI data centers, so miners must sell Bitcoin holdings to buy chips and servers, creating Bitcoin supply overhang while their equity story increasingly depends on AI data center power and infrastructure buildout.

Observes the stock has retraced all of its recent gap-ups following its earnings report.

Author holds IREN shares with high confidence, positioning it as a full-stack play like NBIS rather than RIOT, a clear long conviction.

The author summarizes strong earnings and AI infrastructure news across multiple names but provides no personal positions or forward calls, framing everything as factual market recap.

Author notes sector-wide technical weakness and plans to share buy signals later, while holding shares long-term without issuing fresh trade calls.

Riot Platform's $9 billion, 20-year compute deal with Anthropic and earlier AMD deal mark its shift from pure-play Bitcoin mining to a hybrid AI miner. This opens a much bigger opportunity amid the AI boom, makes it more resilient in a Bitcoin price slump, and is positive for investors in that cohort.

Observes that neocloud stocks tend to fade after initially popping on contract announcements.

Riot Platforms is up 18% pre-market, but the tweet is a factual price report with no directional view or position stated.

Premarket movers report shows Mag 7 stocks mixed while ACVA, BW, CAH, P, FRMI, PLUG, RPD, and RIOT rise on earnings or deal news, with HIMS and ONON falling on weak forecasts.

US pre-market movers show mixed futures with notable individual stock reactions including Intel's increased share sale, Getty's surprise loss, Riot's AI data center deal, and several earnings-driven moves across the board.

RIOT Platforms, a Bitcoin miner, is pivoting to AI compute by securing a 20-year deal with Anthropic for 200 MW of capacity, capitalizing on near-term compute supply constraints and generating better ROI than Bitcoin mining.

Riot Platforms (RIOT) has pivoted from Bitcoin mining to AI computing and has already seen results from this new vertical. An Anthropic contract potentially extending to 2048 could substantially boost revenues in multiples of the initial deal size.

Buy RIOT as a newly announced 191 MW AI data center deal (likely with Anthropic) worth $9.1B over 20 years — with $365M–$411M annual NOI — represents a fundamental business transformation, with revenue inflection beginning H2 2027 as capacity comes online.

Watch RIOT rather than long; author explicitly does not own it and gives no buy recommendation, but flags ~$455M contracted annual revenue and a possible 2028 Bitcoin catalyst that could lift crypto-exposed names in H1 2028.