One day we'll find out that all of the VR, crypto, and maybe now AI bubbles were nothing but conspiracies being driven by big-GPU to keep their share price up.
Speaking for myself, I have already gotten more use out of 2 weeks of chatgpt than I have out of 16 years of Bitcoin
Which is just what I'd expect to read on an influential tech forum if grandparent was in fact right.
14. First Bitcoin was mined 14 years ago. And Bitcoins have not been mined with GPUs since 2013.
You pedantry reinforces the point, rather than diminishing it.
VR has been a godsend for forcing hardware, OS and driver developers to actually pay attention to jitter and max latency. If crypto means we get nice fast pretty games and fancy AI then I’m for it. :)