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I just wanted to be able to buy a GPU without paying exorbitant prices because miners.

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I think there's a realistic chance that you'll soon be able to get them at a nice discount on ebay.

Ethereum switching to PoS seems like it would definitely reduce the incentive to buy truckloads of gpus

Wouldn't the hundreds of other PoW currencies still be an incentive?

Most GPUs are used to mine ETH. It is by far the most profitable. Unless another POW coin becomes as valuable as ETH, demand for GPUs will drop precipitously.

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BTC hasn't used GPUs to mine in 8+ years man.

bitcoin doesnt use GPUs

Mining prices are skyrocketing right now - Still extremely profitable even in a bear market

If it was like last time (2018), prices remained higher than what they should have been for months after. Then Nvidia got the message about how much people were willing to spend on GPUs, and overpriced their RTX 2000 cards.

Even if the big crash that kills GPU prices happen, I'll probably still have to go second hand, since a brand new, better GPU than the one I have will still go for (albeit less) ludicrous prices.

I only say this about 1% of the time I read stuff like this, and it's still too much:

_Bitcoin doesn't use GPUs to mine with_.

It's been custom ASICs for the last eight years or so. I think.

Ethereum does though

e: Take a look at this https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/nfppnv/120_rtx...

There are countless people like that

How do people get that many cards? Myself and about 3 friends have all been trying to get a 3060 or better for the last 3 months to build new computers and none of us has gotten a card yet. This is a mix of following discords, knowing site stock times (or trying their ridiculous lotteries), and one friend has tried bots.

Bitcoin is the high water that floats all the other boats in crypto. When BTC drops, they all drop. So their core point is certainly valid.

Not to mention that BTC-specific ASICs are a big reason there is a chip manufacturing squeeze. Millions of completely useless, power gobbling devices.

Apps like Nicehash mine the most profitable shitcoin using your GPU and convert it to Bitcoin. When the market pumps people buy up cards and use it to make good money.

I'll have to try it on my eight-year old laptop then. Maybe the crash will make it suddenly efficient.

You'll spend more in electricity than you will make.

ASICs presumably take up valuable chip fab capacity at a time where we are going through a lengthy chips shortage that has real-world manufacturing impact on real goods people use to perform useful work.

A lot of that particular shortage happened because everyone cancelled their preexisting contracts and now they have to renegotiate at a new cost basis, after the government has thrown trillions of new dollars into the economy.

ASICs have had shipping shortages for months now, there's probably a lot of people using GPUs for bitcoin again, on top of ASIC-hard "crypto""currencies" that always abuse GPUs.

_A bunch of other coins use GPUs to mine_.

next 3070s are going to crippled for EtherMining so you'll be good.... gonna pick a 3080Ti up myself to run some Yolo4 models

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-confirms-geforce-rtx-3080-ti...

GPU prices going down wont' happen. Just take the hit, or queue.

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