Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Central Washington

Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by dahdum on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:08PM (#17168204)

Crypto and the AI boom are funneling money to Nvidia for R&D and to ramp up production.

If you want advancement in graphics cards to come more quickly, it’s not a bad trend.

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Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by raverbashing on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:55PM (#17168473)

One good thing that comes out of this at least, though it's not only cryptocurrencies, it's AI as well.

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Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by Macha on Sunday May 27, 2018 @04:14PM (#17168895)

However, after crypto blew up in their face last time (they ramped up production just before bitcoin gpu mining got replaced by ASICs and ended up with a load of unwanted GPUs), they haven't been so quick to ramp up production this time.

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Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by dvlsg on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:02PM (#17180977)

I _do_ want advancement to come more quickly - but I also want to have access to those benefits.

Hopefully both can be achieved.

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