That’s why transactions are defined as the exchange of something of value. In most legal systems, if you’re caught swapping phony transactions like that, you can be prosecuted for fraud.
If I gave you $5 and then you gave it to someone else and then they gave it back to me we’ve done nothing but can call it $15 in business transactions.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think I understand. Can… Can I have the $5 now please?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
300% profit! Where’s my bonus!
Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are allowed to take an extra 15-minute break.
But it has to be used this week. And during quiet times. And not within an hour of any other break. Or the start and end of your work hours. And not on any day that ends in Y.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nvidia invests in company… Company buys Nvidia items… Nvidia stock goes up… Nvidia has new pretend money to invest into another company…
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And this is news to people?
KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Apparently so.
hemmes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Question is: which of those is truly the best short play?
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only winning play is to not.
ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Why would nvidia have new money to invest when its stock goes up? That’s not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company. Unless they finance all their investments with debt and use their higher valuation to get easier access to that financing. Which seems unlikely.
Don’t get me wrong, I 100% think AI is a crap bubble, but I don’t think you understood how this scam works.
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NVIDIA sells GPUs to Oracle. Oracle sells GPU time to openai.
When time comes to pay the bills, openai doesn’t have the money to pay Oracle who then doesn’t have money to pay NVIDIA. So, Oracle gives stock to NVIDIA, and openai also gives stock to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA doesn’t care if both go broke because now a gpu is worth a lot more, and in the books they’re selling a lot more GPUs each for a lot more money. So NVIDIA stock goes through the roof even if they ran out of cash and got into ridiculous debt.
Shareholders have a ridiculous profit, NVIDIA directors get a massive bonus and NVIDIA CEO gets famous.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wouldn’t NVIDA care? They now own part of the company in exchange for that hardware?
If they go bankrupt, nvidia loses their stake in a company, and it all falls apart.
OpenAI though, can only go on for as long as their venture capitalists are willing to support it.
I’m not convinced the LLM model can ever make an AGI, but it a can be useful and be made more useful. There could come a point where it’s usefulness and it’s short comings reach a profitable point that people will accept.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
the power bill seems to be placed on customers of the electric companies
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Because higher stock value means more collateral for debt.
You’d be surprised on how much debt is used in even small companies.
ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I’m aware, usually investments are not financed (primarily) with debt though.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Companies issue new stock to raise capital all the time.
ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yea, except Nvidia didn’t.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The company can issue more stock, not just use debt for its financing. And the value of the new stock is strongly influenced by the market price of the stock that has already been issued.
ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Nvidia’s outstanding shares have declined continuously since 2017.