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by qqii 6y ago
First move against but not the first time they've released a mining only card. They did the same thing for the 1060 in 2017b https://videocardz.com/70520/nvidia-p106-100-cryptocurrency-...
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by qqii 6y ago
Dissapointingly the article does not cite their sources. > Bryan Del Rizzo (director of global PR for GeForce) @bdelrizzo > Hi Ryan. It's not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silic
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by qqii 6y ago
Some people are, but we also saw a flood of both normal and mining only cards in the used market last time the mining bubble burst.
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by qqii 6y ago
No you can't, as the article explains these cards don't have display outputs.
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by qqii 6y ago
> Is this really good news, or is this just Nvidia playing both sides? To be clear, these CMP cards are still the same exact silicon that goes into GeForce and Quadro graphics cards. They don't have video outputs, cooling should be
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by qqii 6y ago
How do you compare the value of gaming to trustless decentralised gambling or prediction markets? What about to NFT based trading cards? How about decentralised exchanges?
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by qqii 6y ago
Trustless prediction markets and gambling. Trustless exchanges and lending (including tokens pegged to real world assets like the dollar or stocks). NFTs as digital proof of ownership.
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by qqii 6y ago
Although you may disagree with the current value of most cryptocurrencies would you at least agree that their inhenrant value isn't 0? Newer projects like Uniswap, AAVE and MakerDAO (for DAI) are uniquely new and novel concepts that ca
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by qqii 6y ago
Comparing it to roulette is such a hyperbole. Would you say that penny stocks are playing the roulette? You may argue they have similar odds but there are fundimental differences between them.
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by qqii 6y ago
It comes down to opinion but I'd argue there is inherent value in a trustless medium of exchange, a trustless explicit protocol for lending, market making (exchange) or gambling or the platform that powers them. I'd also agree tha
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by qqii 6y ago
This should be weighted against these mining cards becoming e-waste instead of entering the seccond hand market. The energy used to manufacturea GPU is a significant part of its overall impact.
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by qqii 6y ago
A lot of people are claiming this as a win for the non mining consumer but as the articles puts it: > Nvidia does state that these GPUs "don't meet the specifications required of a GeForce GPU and, thus, don't impact the a
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by qqii 6y ago
How so? Take this excerpt from the article: > Nvidia does state that these GPUs "don't meet the specifications required of a GeForce GPU and, thus, don't impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers." Frankly, th
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by qqii 6y ago
It will be possible but as your third video suggests the number of cards that'll be used this way and not end up as landfill will be peanuts.
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by qqii 6y ago
Who will be buying it though? Last time this happened mining cards without display output were sold much cheaper than their equivalent counterparts. The only saving grace they had were hacky Looking Glass style solutions.
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by qqii 6y ago
> According to Bryan Del Rizzo, director of global PR for GeForce, more things are working behind the driver. > According to Mr. Del Rizzo: "It's not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the R
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by qqii 6y ago
Here's a source: > According to Bryan Del Rizzo, director of global PR for GeForce, more things are working behind the driver. > According to Mr. Del Rizzo: "It's not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake bet
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by qqii 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260 Also on reddit: (Linus from Linus Tech Tip's Take, I'd reccomended watching this one) https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/
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by qqii 6y ago
The point is anyone can create an NFT platform and upload their own nyan cat to it.
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by qqii 6y ago
I suspect they're listing maximum power draw and not mining power draw like their other cards, otherwise they'll also be outer performed by their normal cards if properly optimised.
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by qqii 6y ago
I don't speak Russian but this video suggests otherwise: https://youtu.be/282Ozbp-Uv8?t=262
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by qqii 6y ago
If you watch the Russian source video he seems to somehow install Nividia's drivers selecting 3070.
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by qqii 6y ago
I don't speak Russian but the source video shows him force installing Nividia's drivers and selecting 3070. Pure speculation but I'd imagine that Nividia's drivers can properly differentiate and already had the limitatio
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by qqii 6y ago
GPU mining is mostly ethereum. Ethereum mining isn't just arbitrary hash functions, its network settled $1T last year[0]. [0]: https://www.newsbtc.com/news/ethereum/ethereum-on-pace-to-se...
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by qqii 6y ago
By the same logic those interested in ML shouldn't be buying up Geforce cards and should buy their Tesla line.
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by qqii 6y ago
Transactions can't time out and there are two main solutions for businesses that want to accept bitcoin: * Accept transactions that are in the mempool * Use the lightning network Accepting mempool transactions obviously has lesser
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by qqii 6y ago
Except projects like TrustSwap exist. The Internet doesn't have built in mechanisms for regulation or fraud and nor should it. Cryptocurrencies obviously don't solve the problem, but can be used to create a stricter set of guarent
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by qqii 6y ago
> regulatory https://register.fca.org.uk/s/firm?id=0010X00004U9vVAQAZ > fraud https://trustswap.org/ Just to name two examples. Cryptocurrency like cash won't stop you from falling to fraud
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by qqii 6y ago
Like what? With the recent defi boom and the increased trust and popularity in oracles serving off chain data I'd say that you can find a cryptocurrency project for most promises. Not being popular or adopted is another issue.
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by qqii 6y ago
Then perhaps you should look at the numerous functioning proof of stake projects that exist? I'm the top 25 market cap there's: BNB (powering the Binance Smart Chain) DOT (Polkadot) ADA (Cardano) ATOM (Cosmos) EOS

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