2026-01-13 16:37:10

Today's AI bubble dwarfs the IT bubble of the 1990s. Think about it—back then, valuations were irrational, but the infrastructure wasn't even there yet. Now? We're seeing trillion-dollar companies chase AI applications that don't exist yet, burning capital on unproven tech stacks. The scale is different. The money is different. The FOMO is definitely different. For crypto investors watching from the sidelines, this matters. When bubbles burst, capital gets destroyed across multiple asset classes. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes—and right now, the music sounds familiar. Understanding these macro cycles helps you think about where liquidity flows next.

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shadowy_supercoder

· 1m ago

Damn, this AI bubble is really way more intense than the internet boom of the 90s. The scale of money burning alone is terrifying.

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degenonymous

· 16h ago

To be honest, this AI bubble is indeed outrageous in scale, and the ways of burning money are all different now.

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AirdropHunter

· 16h ago

Haha, this time it's really outrageous; even the money-burning methods have been upgraded.

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PhantomMiner

· 16h ago

That childishness from the 90s, now this is what you call real madness—trillions of dollars pouring into something that doesn't even exist, it's hilarious.

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SchrödingersNode

· 16h ago

Wait, is this AI bubble bigger than the 90s IT bubble? Are we about to reenact it? The only difference is a few more zeros in the numbers...

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RiddleMaster

· 16h ago

That's right, this wave of AI is indeed crazy... but I think this time it's even more outrageous than the 90s. At least back then, people were still laying fiber optics; now they're just burning money to train models without even thinking through their use cases.

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