Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH 2.0)?

Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by worldofmatthew on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:24PM (#32048627)

The author comes off as upset that GPU is planned to come to an effective end. GPU miners deserve nothing to avoid "carnage" (as the author puts it) and should have known the risk before creating a GPU shortage.

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by mrandish on Sunday July 10, 2022 @06:51PM (#32049986)

Yeah, I too have zero sympathy for GPU miners. They deserve to drown in their increasingly worthless GPUs.

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by sterlind on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:21AM (#32053244)

I'm licking my lips at the prospect of putting together an ML rig from all the RTX 3090s hitting the market.

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by domenicrosati on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:47AM (#32054447)

Same

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by darthrupert on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:10AM (#32055048)

As if ML applications were ethically sounder than PoW coins...

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by manarth on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:25AM (#32055206)

ML for cancer-diagnosis of image-scans? Identification of endangered species? Translating dying languages?

I get the point you're making, and would add that some ML applications bring tangible benefits to humanity which are proportionate to their energy consumption.

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by darthrupert on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:10AM (#32057188)

Yep they certainly do. I'm sure there are also some ethically sound blockchain implementations out there somewhere.

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by jvanderbot on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:23AM (#32057344)

I'm skeptical. How?

You'd need a "proof of ethics" and that seems technologically dubious.

Or, you'd be using blockchain to create an ethical application, and whatever benefits are realized by the application are probably not best provided by blockchain.

Using computing to compute meaningful data is directly justified or at least directly measurable.

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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by popcorncowboy on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:09AM (#32056371)

There's a token for that. /s

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