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Re:Will GPU mining end after the Merge (formerly called ETH ... by mrguyorama on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:24PM (#32059792)
Bitcoin hasn't been GPU mining in a very long time. It uses custom ASICs. The distinction is that bitcoin itself has very little effect on the GPU market. However, seeing as most coins are pretty correlated with bitcoin, at least until they completely fail, bitcoin price has like a second order effect on the GPU market.
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