What Bitcoin Did
What Bitcoin Did
Danny Knowles
AI Is Coming for Bitcoin’s Energy | Michael Dunworth
1 hour 39 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
Bitcoin's Energy Conversation
AI's Impact on the Job Market
The Disruption and Consolidation of AI
Bitcoin vs. AI for Energy
AI Data Centers and Bitcoin Mining
AI's Preference for Bitcoin
Algorithms, Energy, and Data Sets
Energy Shortage and Modular Reactors
Physics, Math, and Energy's Silicon Moment
Accumulating Bitcoin at a National Level
The Importance of Focus for Bitcoin's Message
Mathematicians and Algorithm Optimization
Radiant Micro-Nuclear Reactors
Solar Farms in China
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“Bitcoin has a chance of losing the energy conversation.”

Michael Dunworth joins the show to break down what happens when AI and Bitcoin collide over the world’s most important resource: energy.

Michael argues that as AI demand explodes, governments and corporations will prioritise data centres over Bitcoin mining, potentially rationing energy and pushing Bitcoin to the margins. At the same time, AI is set to drive massive job displacement, reshape global infrastructure, and concentrate power into a handful of dominant players.

We get into whether this is an existential threat to Bitcoin or a hidden tailwind for decentralisation, how AI could reshape energy markets, why Bitcoin mining might survive as a balancing layer for AI grids, and whether AI itself ultimately chooses Bitcoin as its native money. We also discuss nation state adoption, the risk of governments seizing Bitcoin, the centralisation of custody, and why Bitcoin’s biggest risk right now might be losing focus.

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