Post-Merge mining hardware becomes useless without a compute marketplace
"Base Layer Episode 209: Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network on Decentralizing Compute" (Base Layer)
“When Ethereum moves to a proof of stake… all that hardware becomes useless. And it’s really good hardware… there is no marketplace, there’s no sort of like liquidity mechanism… So the solution is to install Akash and have users run TensorFlow applications or any of these machine learning applications and take advantage of this chip compute.” — 00:29:14
Context: Continuation of the GPU marketplace answer (spans into the 00:29:56 block); “chip compute” = Whisper for “cheap compute.” Miners would earn AKT for serving ML workloads.