Nvidia & AMD’s Answer to Cryptocurrency Miners

What can Nvidia & AMD do about miners buying up Ampere and RDNA 2 Graphics Cards? What are their options?

0:00 Why we need to talk about the realities of miners
1:30 Could Nvidia & AMD prevent mining at the driver level?
3:20 Remember – Ethereum was designed to run well on GAMING GPUs…
4:53 Why don’t they make gaming cards bad at mining?
6:12 Can AMD make a mining-only GPU? Can they just increase supply?
8:24 Even if it was cheap to design a mining GPU, it wouldn’t matter
9:26 So what can be done?! What should gamers do in the future?

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https://cryptoslate.com/bitmain-e3-asic-ethereum-miner/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPB0cbCFGik&ab_channel=RedPandaMining

Nvidia & AMD’s Answer to Cryptocurrency Miners

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