Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3...
by travisporter on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:13PM
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On this point, I don't get why "ASIC resistance" is a feature of cryptocurrencies (Not that it's impossible, just something people like to say). We're in the same boat because no one can get a GPU, and at least those can game/do ML.
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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3...
by wruza on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:49PM
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It was introduced to reduce 51% attack possibility. Graphics cards are (were) abundant and not concentrated in e.g. China, which probably produces all asics in the world. Now it is just a nonsense, because crypto essentially = BTC and it doesn’t have this “feature”.