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What will happen to the cards once the crypto boom is over? There was a lot of trashed AntMiners out there after the late 2017 bubble, and with it a good amount of CAPEX written down.

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This is only true for ASIC miners, ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) are pieces of hardware designed to do very specific things - e.g. mining crypto currencies. When these cards become obsolete or aren't profitable anymore, trashing them is almost the only thing you can do.

On the other side, GPUs, even if they are not profitable anymore to crypto currency miners, can still be used afterwards or sold back.

they still make great LAN party GPUs. HL2 mp is not a problem and even ark runs on them somewhat

this is the way

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