Weird but true: without crypto, the current AI boom would not have been possible.
Today's data center buildout would've been impossible without Bitcoin miners spending a decade building the knowhow around power, sites, and scale in remote locations.
Nvidia could not moved beyond gaming to specialized compute without crypto mining as the bridge.
And the biggest neoclouds are almost all ex-crypto talent:
@CoreWeave,
@CrusoeAI,
@togethercompute,
@nscale, etc.