Cryptocurrency mining makes a move to RTX 3000 Series Laptops
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Truder
And this is why we can't have nice things....
CrazY_Milojko
2017 GPU mining craze is happening again, but this year it's going to be even worse, wish that I'm wrong but... š Long term looking this doesn't looking good for PC as a platform, many will abandon PC as a entusiast/gaming hobby and find something else, many will never come back again even when situation returns to normal and guess some of those who were using PC for productivity workloads willing to upgrade to something more powerfull will turn their heads to the newest Apple products. Really hope that this cripto bubble is going to burst as soon as possible...
Devid
Gaming laptops?!
What comes next?Smart watches?Smart appliances in the kitchen?
This will end up very bad this time...
KissSh0t
I understand now why video cards are so hard to purchase for anyone outside of China..... because they aren't leaving China.
TheDeeGee
Very sad, i wish they banned this fake money business already.
I guess sooner or a later it's gonna be a huge issue anyways due to power consumption, and more people have electric cars that need charging as well. The powernet won't be able to handle it anymore.
anticupidon
Kaarme
Seeing how Tesla invested 1.5 billion dollars in bitcoin and apparently you can soon buy a Tesla car with bitcoin, I don't see much hope for a better tomorrow. As far as I know (which isn't much), folks can mine the GPU heavy crypto and exchange them easily for bitcoin. If nobody cared about the other crypto, only bitcoin, maybe there would be a bit of hope left. However, the current development seems to be the opposite, crypto becoming more and more legitimate all the time. I haven't seen even environmentalists campaigning against it, despite the huge energy consumption. Maybe because crypto is useful for the drug trade.
Kevin Mauro
This is out of control
Venix
DarkQuark
It just seems insane to me. All that hardware and power consumption to "create" something that does not really exist.
I think a lot of folks see this crypto thing wrong. I don't think it was created to make millionaires or not even as a place to invest money. The true power in it is that you can move money around the world without the big banks or governments getting involved. That's actually why they dislike it so much in my opinion.
It has real power and function, but this mining thing is not what it's about. This is just people trying to get rich quick which has happened since the beginning of time.
DarkQuark
WalterDasTrevas
Selfish parasites that inflate energy tariffs and damage everyone's economy.
Venix
DarkQuark
Silva
Only hope is for governments to take action against crypto coins. Mining with dedicated hardware I don't care, but when a normal parent can't even buy his kid a laptop: it's sickening.
As someone said in this thread, we can't buy hardware because it doesn't leave China. We have a serious problem here that AMD and Nvidia need to sort out on their end too.
bobnewels
Well I like the crypto,amazing how many good people in the world that hate crypto.
Venix
Solfaur
Never done any mining myself, but I did "invest" a bit in bitcoin (big mistake, only losses) in the past and I really, really hate what the whole cryptocurrency "scene" has become.
While I did believe, and still do, that there is a future for crypto (that is if we don't have some extinction event happening that brings us back to the stone age), in this shape and form it is just too much. At the same time it shows how greed in a "wild capitalism" like this (in "communist" China nonetheless, lol) can mess things up. The makers of the hardware get tons of money, yet consumers and environment get rekt.
Very, very messed up times, however for some few out there, it's the best times ever...
One thing is sure though, unless the market crashes HARD again, I will never see an Ampere card this year. It won't even matter how much x times nvidia will ramp up production, all of it will be sucked up by miners.
DarkQuark
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