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Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge by TheDudeMan on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:20PM (#32873295)
Data centers don't buy from stores.
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Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge by UberFly on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:54PM (#32874355)
Exactly. Everything worth buying was being snatched and resold before it even saw a store.
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Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge by henearkr on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:50PM (#32873488)
A ton of not-data-center-people took mining as a hobby...
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Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge by jimmydorry on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:00AM (#32875395)
And what exactly is the difference between a data centre and a hobbyist running at a similar scale?
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Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge by henearkr on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:42AM (#32875847)
The mass of hobby miners NOT running at a datacenter-scale was probably enough to empty stores, which was the point of the original comment.
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