Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307...
by paulmd on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:42PM
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there's no such thing as a "mining-only" card, they are still good for compute tasks like grid compute.
what you are looking at is a future that is very, very bright for BOINC and folding@home scores.
the cards will never be worthless, if nothing else someone will buy them up for 25 bucks and store them until the (inevitable) next mining crisis, and any reasonable miner is going to chose 25 bucks versus having to pay to dispose of them properly (ahahah, sorry, we all know if it comes to that they're going in the nearest creek).
anyway you get the point though, the value is never going to actual zero, people will buy them for development work, for grid compute, or just as a bet on the next mining crisis. A hundred bucks for a card is better than nothing.
what you are looking at is a future that is very, very bright for BOINC and folding@home scores.
the cards will never be worthless, if nothing else someone will buy them up for 25 bucks and store them until the (inevitable) next mining crisis, and any reasonable miner is going to chose 25 bucks versus having to pay to dispose of them properly (ahahah, sorry, we all know if it comes to that they're going in the nearest creek).
anyway you get the point though, the value is never going to actual zero, people will buy them for development work, for grid compute, or just as a bet on the next mining crisis. A hundred bucks for a card is better than nothing.