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Great so can you stop buying all the RTX now so casual gamers can maybe get one?
by pluc 5y ago
Great so can you stop buying all the RTX now so casual gamers can maybe get one?
- tyingq 5y agoI don't think anyone's mining bitcoin with GPUs.
- enlyth 5y agoIt doesn't matter that much, people often use auto-switching algorithms that mine whatever is currently most profitable and then swap it for what they wish to hold. It's not that difficult to mine ETH and get BTC for it (there are services but I don't want to promote anything).
- scottiebarnes 5y agoThat would be mining other cryptos with GPUs and selling those proceeds for btc.
- TheAdamist 5y agoOne of the ways people were getting around the LHR/"low hash rate" cards was mining a few types of cryptocurrency simultaneously, which probably fits right in with the auto switching.
- WithinReason 5y agoEtherium is mined most commonly on GPUs, and the mining was designed to optimise badly for ASICs.
- rbanffy 5y agoHow long until it moves to proof of stake?
- jules-jules 5y agoQ2 2022 is most likely. Afaik, one more dev testnet and one or two public ones to go. So far the biggest issue appears to be to achieve sufficient client diversity.
- dragontamer 5y agoEthereum has been 6 months away from proof of stake for the last 5 years.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoProbably not. The era of affordable high-end GPUs is over and I don't think it is coming back even after the entire cryptocurrency-nonsense bubble pops. The expected price of a high-end GPU is now fixed in the >$1k range.