The initial sentiment in hacker news and reddit threads was overwhelmingly positive for nividia and against miners.
Now that some time has passed and Linus (from LTT) has released his video I'd say the sentiment is still mixed. I'm still seeing many tweets praising nividia for finally taking a step for gamers.
Here's an austrilian tech Youtuber who should know better: https://youtu.be/jnoNryem-G8
> miners can now no longer recoup some money
Ah, you’re a miner? You’re worried about their ability to make money?
> gamers realize they’re being screwed
How, exactly?
> miners can now no longer recoup some money
When it was no longer profitable miners sold their GPUs on the uses market, here is evidence of that: https://youtu.be/plrsxEGYO-A
> gamers realize they’re being screwed
Linus Tech Tips' video and the /r/hardware discussion puts this best: https://youtu.be/plrsxEGYO-A
It's true that cheap cards were available when bitcoin crashed in 2018. I'm not arguing that cheap cards weren't available. I'm saying the feeling that cheap cards are a huge positive for the gaming community is missing the forest for the trees, and forgetting the pain of what happened before there were cheap cards. Cheap cards came around eventually long after the cards had been unavailable and waaaaay overpriced. It was a relief for gamers that the bubble popped, but on balance, it was not a good thing that they had the bubble.
You can say Nvidia is making a smart business decision (questionable) but to say this isn't anything other than a pr disaster imo is incorrect. The people who were the target of their press releases saw right through it.