During mining craze GPU, RAM, board manufacturers and resellers got really big money.
They also had been behind media coverage hype that caused the craze.
Taiwan suppliers of motherboards and graphic cards are expected to see increasingly bleak business prospects through the first half of 2019, due to a spate of adverse factors emerging in the third quarter of 2018, including sustained chill in the crypto mining sector,
Negative factors sharply drove up inventory levels at Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, and other peer makers of motherboards or graphic cards in the third quarter of 2018.
Among the makers, Asustek saw its net earnings for the third quarter plunge 43% on year. Gigabyte's after-tax profits for the third quarter 2018 plummeted to only NT$132 million or EPS of NT$0.23, for the lowest quarterly level recorded since the fourth quarter of 2008.
Meet some of manipulators who paid press and youtube channels to push cryptocurrency.
Also Etherium and ZCash keep afloat due to large farms owned by big investors who still hope to later resurgence with individuals pulling out like crazy.
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