GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years.
The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last year
GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years.
The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last year
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Source?
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The first ASIC came out in 2013 coindesk.com/…/the-rise-of-asics-a-step-by-step-h…
It was more profitable to mine alts in 2014 already, like Litecoin
flooppoolf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The coin literally went from proof of work to proof of stake or some shit like that. All mining of ETH will no longer generate any value.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Source on the 10 year part?
ayaya@lemdro.id 10 months ago
Bitcoin has been mined on ASICs since 2013.
TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 10 months ago
I'm not the person you're asking either lol but I was curious so I poked around till I could find something. This says that the last time GPU mining for Bitcoin was 2014.
https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/the-history-of-cryptocurrency-mining#!
This isn't an area I know like literally fucking anything about. So this was just me googling. I don't know how reliable this source is
flooppoolf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You got the sources you asked for, but the sentiment wasn’t wholly off.
There are still other crypto being mined in video cards.
So if you dont think that’s worthwhile for all crypto (as in you just hate bitcoin but not ethereum before POS) then there’s still a lot of waste from your view point.
If you specifically don’t like bitcoin, you’d need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decision
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias