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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by quickthrowman on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:45PM (#26215961)
> The CMP version is a straight-to-landfill product. As soon as it stops being profitable for mining it will have zero resale value, and become e-waste.

You are aware that this already happens to BTC ASICs when the new generation of ASIC comes out, right? Straight to the landfill. BTC is very wasteful, this is not new.

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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by jagger27 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:15PM (#26216214)
The difference being that NVIDIAs dies were otherwise usable for other tasks, unlike Bitcoin SHA ASICs.
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