>Also GPU prices going down would be great.

Yes! I haven't had a gaming PC for a while. Been looking for GTX1080 for an ITX case, but ... it appeared that small form factor graphic cards were particularly popular among those miner guys

I think I will take GTX1170 once it out there. People expect 1080 baseline performance at a saner power budget.

I'm very hopeful about proof-of-stake for this reason.

Mining is a massive waste of resources, and isn't very effective at decentralizing the network.

I completely forgot about that, I've been sitting on a 970 for years now, I stopped checking prices for video cards early last year and haven't even thought about it in months.

It's quite bizarre to effectively be unable to upgrade your computer for a year or two. I had forgotten how regular that process was for me.

They might even crash the second hand market at least if mining becomes unprofitable. Some people have tens or hundreds of good GPUs. I'm still running one of the AMD combined CPU/GPU things since all the good cards were ridiculous when I bought the PC. Looking forward to grabbing one of the nicer cards from the altcoin mines for $200