Nvidia isn't thrilled about crypto mining because it creates too many second-hand cards, that's it. They just want to kill the second-hand market boom that happ

Nvidia isn't thrilled about crypto mining because it creates too many second-hand cards, that's it. They just want to kill the second-hand market boom that happened as crypto mining has high hardware turnover, and gaming doesn't. So gamers just pick up second-hand previous generation high end cards instead of buying current gen mid-range cards. It's not a coincidence the software lockout landed right as Nvidia released an unlocked mining card without a display output ( https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/ ). And since it doesn't have a display output, all those used mining cards become ewaste instead of something that cuts into nvidia's revenue.