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Re:Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year by eudora on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:19PM (#18455648)
Planning on mining some bitcoin are ya? :)
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Re:Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year by hsienmaneja on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:40PM (#18456692)
It’s likely the commenter would like the used market to be flooded with supply, driving prices down in order to buy cheap and still have a budget for the kung fu grip gpu.
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Re:Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year by AboutTheWhisles on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:33PM (#18456668)
You can't profitably mine bitcoin with a graphics card
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Re:Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year by tinus_hn on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:23AM (#18460518)
Then why are miners buying so many graphics cards that the price is going through the roof?
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Re:Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year by jraedisch on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:19PM (#18462895)
They are mining (more) ASIC resistant tokens like Ethereum.
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Re:Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year by fgonzag on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:58PM (#18473851)
Not for mining BTC, I can tell you that.

BTC != Crypto currency

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