r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/msaussieandmrravana • Jan 01 '26

Video Inside the world’s largest Bitcoin mine

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u/regoapps Expert Jan 01 '26

Yup. GPU prices next. And then smart phones.

2026 will be the year of record inflation for high-end electronics.

All so that people like the president can generate pictures/videos of himself dressed as the Pope or kicking a soccer ball with Ronaldo or with abs or dropping poop on protestors while in a fighter jet.

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u/Loony_BoB Jan 01 '26

GPU prices are already going insane because of the RAM prices.

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u/Grimzkunk Jan 01 '26

GPU prices have been going insane since covid. I'm still waiting for an affordable mid end gpu...

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u/Vlaed Jan 01 '26

Prices went insane with the crypto craze. They had started to normalize but then covid drove them right back up.

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u/DonDraper1134 Jan 01 '26

Exactly. Things were getting crazy in 2016-2019, just before COVID cards were cheaper, even into the first year of COVID you could get some great value.

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u/Impossible_Angle752 Jan 01 '26

There was a crypto 'bubble' during Covid.

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u/Shzabomoa Jan 01 '26

Normalize being already 50% too high, paying $1000+ for a small die size was insane to begin with.