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A comment on Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19.

Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by rdiddly on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:28PM (#22576491)
If it's crowdsourced GPU compute you want, why not hit up crypto miners too? Maybe slightly less altruistic than gamers, but still.
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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by bestboy on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:36PM (#22576552)
Many crypto miners are indeed doing F@H at the moment. Either via curecoin[1] or by lending/joining their rigs to one of the teams[2].

[1] https://curecoin.net

[2] https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by wtracy on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:10PM (#22577286)
My impression is that gamers still represent a much larger pool of GPU hardware than crypto miners.

All of the really big miners are mining Bitcoin using ASICs.

Obviously, I don't have real numbers, and I could be completely wrong.

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