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What does orphaned mean in this context?
by notJim 3y ago
What does orphaned mean in this context?
- throwup238 3y agoThe two parent 2080s were lost in a tragic cryptocurrency mining accident when the bitcoin ceiling collapsed. Please send donations to the Aboveground Miners fund in your choice of shitcoin.
- pixelpoet 3y agoI get that it's supposed to be funny, but I wonder how many people still think bitcoin mining happens on GPUs, particularly Nvidia ones. Pretty sure that stopped being the case like 14 years ago or something? Anyway...
- throwup238 3y agoASICs didn’t really take over until around 2013 (I was designing some PCBs for one of the first ASICs in 2012)
- paulmd 3y agoLitecoin and Doge and Ethereum were mined on GPUs throughout that period. And in fact all the other coins are tied to bitcoin in the first place, bitcoin price runs also trigger huge mining booms in everything else, so yeah, it's kinda understandable that people tend to view them as a single linked thing, because they kinda are. What, precisely, is the point of making "actually you mean crypto, not bitcoin" posts, other than demonstrating that you are, indeed, "very smart"? Like, this person doesn't even exist, it's just a "heh aren't those no-coiners dumb" strawperson that you imagine to be some big dummy.
- Yizahi 3y agoAll tokens are effectively "slaved" to the BTC tokens due to paper thin real liquidity of all of them. Therefore GPUs were very much affected by the BTC volatility, just via proxy, and likely still are. It should be obvious really for anyone.
- newsclues 3y agoLess desirable because vram has become more important.