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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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Also the cost of mining does not set the value of crypto. Utility does. The cost of mining would set the max price of crypto if more miners meant more crypto generated because if it were priced more than cost more producers would produce. But in crypto the number of coins generated is fixed (and in the case of bitcoin the era of making new coins is over).

Cost basis of value is long long dead.