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When the bubble pops on ai, will there then be all those parts up for offer?
If it's anything like the crypto bubble from a couple years ago, then yeah. eBay should be flooded with used RAM and GPUs.
Crypto bubble?
checks price
Wut?
There was one a while ago, back when mining on GPUs was still viable. I wanna say the GTX 1000 series was still in vogue at the time.
So you mean recession, not bubble
It crashed hard and it crashed fast after a prolonged period of unsustainable growth. Is that not a bubble?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264999321002327
Regardless of what happened to crypto, it was certainly a crypto mining hardware bubble for anyone invested in that.
Correct. It was not a bubble. It is a volitile system that will continue to crash and rise forever.
Not too long ago BTC was hovering around $120K. The price has fallen quite a bit in recent weeks
Not too long ago bitcoin was hovering around $10K. The price has risen astronomically in recent years
Both are true.
Yep. It's not a bubble. It's just volatile. And increasing long-term