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Bitcoin trashed the GPU market before moving on to Asics. Then other coins kept going on GPUs.
Hadn't bitcoin not been viable on GPUs for over a decade? Most of the cryptocurrency hype was mining other coins on GPUs, or using them to do blockchain calculations for NFTs and things.
Til. I've only ever seen the application specific boards for Bitcoin.
That was barely a year or two. Bitcoin wasn't very popular globally speaking when the first ASICs already was in development, and in between the two there was FPGA mining