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I think a big reason crypto exploded is tied into prices of graphics cards. Anyone else think so? Miners use them to generate coins, and there was a huge shortage of them. The cards released in 2020 were mining monsters, it makes sense that miners scooped them up. The limited supply left for consumers drove up prices 200-300% above MSRP. The graphics card price inflation nearly mirrored crypto.

Now the cards are coming back down in price because in part, China shutting down miners. Now there's a huge used card supply, and sales have hit a dead end. This drives the price of cards down, along with the fact next Gen cards are half a year away. Prices have to come back down to earth and lo and behold crypto follows right along.

Also curious that Blackrock and Vanguard have controlling shares in both AMD and Nvidia. Shows that they heavily manipulate the markets.

I think a big reason crypto exploded is tied into prices of graphics cards. Anyone else think so? Miners use them to generate coins, and there was a huge shortage of them. The cards released in 2020 were mining monsters, it makes sense that miners scooped them up. The limited supply left for consumers drove up prices 200-300% above MSRP. The graphics card price inflation nearly mirrored crypto. Now the cards are coming back down in price because in part, China shutting down miners. Now there's a huge used card supply, and sales have hit a dead end. This drives the price of cards down, along with the fact next Gen cards are half a year away. Prices have to come back down to earth and lo and behold crypto follows right along. Also curious that Blackrock and Vanguard have controlling shares in both AMD and Nvidia. Shows that they heavily manipulate the markets.

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Finding prime numbers is just another form of proof of work.

And the energy is not entirely wasted, but allow the networks to synchronize without a central coordinating server.

There ARE coins that use "proof of stake". This means that holders of the coins can sign blocks using their holdings. The downside to these coins is that theoretically someone controlling the supply would also control the entire chain. For this and historical reasons they simply haven't been so popular.

In either case cryptos waste a LOT less resources than the legacy financial system. And furthermore if energy costs rise, crypto mining will use less energy since its nothing more than a contest of a sort.