Subj : Re: Crypto currencies and mining..
To   : apam
From : Avon
Date : Mon Nov 01 2021 03:44 pm

On 31 Oct 2021 at 04:37p, apam pondered and said...
 
 ap> Yep, the main problem for gamers is it's hard to get a top of the line
 ap> graphics card due to the miners buying them all. Also, they flood ebay
 ap> with second hand cards when they upgrade, but don't say they were used
 ap> for mining (apparently cards used for mining aren't very desirable
 ap> because they've been pegged at 100% their whole life making them likely
 ap> to fault later)

Bummer yep that all sounds bad from a gaming POV

 ap> You could farm that hard drive crypto chia i think it's called, that just
 ap> uses tons of space rather than cpu/gpu, supposedly it's better for the
 ap> environment, but I guess the don't account for old SSDs and HDDs filling
 ap> up landfill.

Oh I'm not that keen on trying any of it, well I guess I'm at a mildly keen/interested level but (like a lot of things) there's only so much time in the day and so many things to play with :)

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