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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by Vespasian on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:15PM (#27201250)
Either proof-of-stake or ASICs are gonna make GPU Ether mining rather short lived.

Nvidia fears that all those customers will vanish over night.

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by dahart on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:44AM (#27208481)
> Nvidia fears that all those customers will vanish over night.

Exactly - and the fear seems justified since it already happened once before in 2018.

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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by SXX on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:28PM (#27201424)
They only fears that those consumers gonna sell their used hardware which gonna cause drop demand for GPU for a long time.
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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by Vespasian on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:01PM (#27201852)
Well if the invisible hand off the market works in favour of me for once, I'm not gonna complain
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