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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by hh3k0 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:35PM (#29101338)
> Setting up a mining farm with hundreds of free stolen GPUs isn't easy or cheap at all.

Still significantly cheaper than setting up a mining farm with hundreds of legally obtained GPUs.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by thewakalix on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:55PM (#29102101)
That's not relevant, though. The question is whether "there's a safe and easy way to launder expensive hardware into currency". The fact that it's expensive now doesn't conflict with the fact that it could counterfactually be even more expensive.
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