The once-dominant industrial mining farms, shackled by fiat debts, energy contracts, and Wall Street expectations, finally capitulate. They sell their land, liquidate their ASICs, and settle their last obligations in a dying currency.

And then?

They come back—not as lords of the mining world, but as sovereign individuals. They use their deep technical knowledge not to run empires, but to consult, to maintain home miners, to write code, to secure the network they once tried to dominate.

They don’t employ Bitcoin.

Bitcoin employs them.

It’s not a downfall—it’s an ascension. A return to the roots. From centralized extraction to decentralized participation. From corporate overlords to node operators.