Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ...
by jimmydorry on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:27AM
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At an individual level though, increasing the hash rate of your setup without impacting energy usage means more efficient mining (cheaper to run and faster to recoup investment). Long-term, the least efficienct miners get forced out until there is no profit to be had for the effort involved.
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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ...
by ckastner on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:10AM
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> increasing the hash rate of your setup without impacting energy usage means more efficient mining
No, it just means you get more MH/s. It's also (probably) not cheaper to run, unless the cards actually draw less power as well.
Whether that's cost-efficient or not depends on the reward. And with hundreds of TH/s suddenly being freed from LHR, your individual reward will all but certainly go down.