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Re:How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? by arnvald on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:41PM (#29202206)
If people believed that this is the end of PoW the prices of GPUs would already be going down, because people would know that they have at most 7 months of run (until end of Q2) and that they'd be massive selling of graphic cards. I don't see it happening which means that either:

* miners don't believe the switch is happening that soon

* miners know they'll keep PoW with some other blockchain

* miners are gambling hoping that they'll still make profit

Maybe all 3?

Re:How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage? by delaaxe on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:15PM (#29203394)
Maybe you don't realize the amount of profit that can still be made in those 7 months?

Miners earn 2 ETH every 15 seconds.