<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>legutierr</author><text>&amp;gt; there are enough anecdotes of people in Siberia heating their kitchens with GPUs&lt;p&gt;Hey, all you blockchain skeptics, here’s what you are always asking about: a practical use for blockchain tech.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lvl102</author><text>I remember I was short the stock via puts quite a bit and they kept saying crypto was 5% of the business which I knew was a lie. It turned out great for me. Fast forward to 2022, you see how much of the GPU “shortage” was due to crypto mining especially in Russia (there are enough anecdotes of people in Siberia heating their kitchens with GPUs).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC charges Nvidia with inadequate disclosures about impact of cryptomining</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-79</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&amp;gt; due to crypto mining especially in Russia&lt;p&gt;When the war started in neighbouring Ukraine (I live in Romania) the local market started seeing graphics cards again which, previously, had been marked by local official resellers as &amp;quot;not in stock for the near future&amp;quot;.  This is for business procurement, so not even retail.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lvl102</author><text>I remember I was short the stock via puts quite a bit and they kept saying crypto was 5% of the business which I knew was a lie. It turned out great for me. Fast forward to 2022, you see how much of the GPU “shortage” was due to crypto mining especially in Russia (there are enough anecdotes of people in Siberia heating their kitchens with GPUs).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC charges Nvidia with inadequate disclosures about impact of cryptomining</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-79</url></story>