I meant that the release price was subsequently inflated by crypto which in the meantime cooled down significantly; if crypto were still hot, then inflated 20x0 prices would be expected; this seems more like an opportunistic move, "residual crypto-wave surfing", and resembles strategy NVidia was doing in pro segment for a while due to no competition.

1080ti launched in March 2017 before the big 2017 boom.