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Re:Nvidia Announces PCIe Tesla V100 by RussianCow on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:53PM (#14596217)
Are you assuming that all mining is happening with GPUs? Because a large portion of it now is being done with dedicated mining hardware.
Re:Nvidia Announces PCIe Tesla V100 by dantillberg on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:04PM (#14596336)
Yes, I am assuming that all mining is done with GPUs for ETH/ETC/ZEC/XMR and some others. I'm only including coins which are currently profitable to mine on GPUs, which I take as an indication that those algorithms have seen little/no efficient ASIC implementation yet. I'm thus not including bitcoin, since GPUs are little more than space heaters mining bitcoin; and I'm not including e.g. lbry and litecoin and some others because I don't know enough about the ASICification of those.

It's possible, though, as you suggest, that there are some folks running ASICs or improved hashing algorithms at a small scale, small enough not to overwhelm profitability of GPU mining but large enough to muddy calculations which assume that all mining is being done on GPUs.

Re:Nvidia Announces PCIe Tesla V100 by npongratz on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:02PM (#14596306)
GP states they are referring to "... the major GPU-minable coins ... ".
Re:Nvidia Announces PCIe Tesla V100 by RussianCow on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:40PM (#14597294)
I interpreted that as "possible to mine on GPUs", not "profitable to mine", but I guess I misunderstood that.