**News Flash: Miners Dig Deep for Dollars! š¤**
- Bitcoin miners are turning to debt financing to keep the lights on post-halving.
- Nine U.S.-listed companies raised $1.25B in Q2 2024, including Bitdeer, Bitfarms, and Riot.
- Iris Energy added $458M, pushing the total to $1.7B, with another $530M in Q3.
- Core Scientific announced a $400M convertible notes offering to pay off loans.
- Marathon Digital is also in the game with a $250M private offering.
- CleanSpark and Canaan are securing loans with Bitcoin collateral.
- Miners are diversifying, with Core Scientific striking a $6.7B deal with AI cloud provider CoreWeave.
