So people are going to build entire data centers to look for combination of bytes that yield a hash that is funny looking. And when it doesn't become profitable to do so anymore, the e-waste issue it generates is somehow the fault on the chip maker ?

>And when somehow it doesn't become profitable to do so anymore, the e-waste issue it generates is somehow the fault on the chip maker ?

Well yeah, because the alternative would be that the miners dump them on the secondary market to gamers.

Yes. When a chip maker takes a multipurpose product that can be reused when no longer fit for one purpose, and instead makes it single purpose and not reusable for market segmentation reasons, they are absolutely somehow at fault.

Well yeah, since if the chip maker didn't come up with this product strategy the extra e-waste would be further limited.

I think we can probably all agree that corporations should have some responsibility in the ramifications of their products.