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Silver's total value hit 4.65 trillion dollars Monday morning and briefly overtook Nvidia at 4.60 trillion, making a shiny metal more valuable than the company powering the AI revolution. Then it immediately nosedived 8 percent in the biggest one-day crash in nearly five years after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange raised margin requirements, forcing leveraged traders to dump their positions. The metal went from 30 bucks an ounce in January to touching 84 dollars before eating pavement—and nobody can agree if this is a generational bubble or just what happens when AI data centers need silver's conductivity while mine supply stays stuck for the next decade.