“In oil, we call it a crack spread… In soybeans, we call it a crush spread… At DRW, we call this the crunch spread”

Odd Lots · Don Wilson on the GPU Market's Trillion Dollar Question

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Coined the term “crunch spread” to describe the profit margin from renting GPUs, loading an open-source model, and selling tokens

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“You’ll be able to trade futures contracts on the output, on the tokens themselves… that profit margin… akin to what an oil refinery does”
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