Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling

• iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• flooppoolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Source on the 10 year part?

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    • ayaya@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bitcoin has been mined on ASICs since 2013.

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      • TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I am over on kbin.social and upvotes and downvotes don't carry over instances, but on my end there are no downvotes at all in this whole thread. I am just stoned and thought that was interesting.

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      • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I didn’t downvote anything. I asked for a source.

        But the Reddit classic of people taking everything as a person attack has carried over to Lemmy, I see.

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    • TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Excellent source, thank you.

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    • flooppoolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh.

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      • quicksand@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lmao, you don’t have to comment if you don’t know what you’re talking about

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias

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