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Exactly. If Nvidia removed the crypto crippling, almost all of their GPUs would be bought up for crypto mining leaving their gaming market empty. A new entrant would come in and take up their gaming market. Meanwhile, Nvidia's production (and capital expenditure with it) could ramp up dramatically to meet crypto demand, until it too collapses. Then they are left with nothing but debt.

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> A new entrant would come in and take up their gaming market.

Miners would probably find a way to use that new entrant's GPUs for mining too.

I think the real threat is that mining could chill the gaming industry as a whole. Either by pricing tons of people out of gaming so they find new hobbies and maybe never come back, or by influencing the direction of game development away from advanced graphics. If most gamers can't afford top-end GPUs anymore, then the perceived value of [Latest Game] having the most photorealistic graphics yet could be flipped into the negative by a change in gamer culture.

Or they just buy PS5 or Xbox (both have AMD chip) and never go to PC gaming.

Jokes on you, consoles have also been out stock since forever.

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