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No, nobody mines bitcoin on GPUs. Surely you would know that if you're here trying to make argument about it?
by user-the-name 5y ago
No, nobody mines bitcoin on GPUs. Surely you would know that if you're here trying to make argument about it?
- 0thgen 5y agoI was under the impression that standard bitcoin mining leveraged GPUs for the heavy lifting. If that's not the case I'm happy to know what does
- terminalcommand 5y agoThere are ASIC chips as far as I know.
- user-the-name 5y agoThat hasn't been the case for most of the decade. I already told you what does: Completely custom-built hardware that can do nothing but bitcoin mining, such as Antminers. For instance, here is a shipping container that burns 1 megawatt of power in a pure and complete waste of energy and carbon emissions: https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=0002021123118285350583K2a0P505EF https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=0002021123118285...
- 0thgen 5y agoalright, in that case you're right, the processors seem wasteful though interestingly, the specialized processors alkso seem like an example of a second order effect of bitcoin: driving innovation towards more energy efficiency. (though the tradeoff here seems to be wasting materials versus wasting energy)
- floatboth 5y agoIt's all the other shitcoins that are mined on GPUs.