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Re:Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as diffi... by rokkamokka on Saturday April 11, 2026 @11:32AM (#47731454)
Bitcoin is no longer mined by GPUs but by ASICs
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Re:Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as diffi... by ivewonyoung on Saturday April 11, 2026 @11:55AM (#47731639)
Don't the ASICs compete with the same fab capacity that fabs GPUs, RAM, SSDs etc.
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Re:Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as diffi... by svnt on Saturday April 11, 2026 @12:15PM (#47731777)
You’re fractionally right with GPUs but RAM and SSDs run on different processes at different fabs.
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Re:Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as diffi... by marcosdumay on Saturday April 11, 2026 @12:23PM (#47731835)
They compete with older GPUs. Not new ones, not RAM, and not SSDs.
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