Time for a crypto GPU? Gamers and miners spar over scarce top hardware
New GPU cards for mining are on the way, but the demand is too great. So, what are manufacturers doing to solve the shortage? The rise of cryptocurrencies over the past few months, especially with the onset of 2021, has certainly catapulted the crypto niche into the mainstream. While traders buy and sell and try to calculate how much this or that currency has grown by and as large investment funds predict that Bitcoin (BTC) will soon reach $100,000 per coin, big things are also happening in the crypto mining space.Miners in the largest pool, F2Pool, reportedly contributed to the recent....
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The California chipmaker says GeForce RTX 360 is for gamers, not cryptocurrency miners. The latter camp will get its own CMP mining infrastructure in the near future. Nvidia, a California-based hardware company known for developing industry-leading graphics cards, is doing everything it can to ensure that its upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 GPU ends up in the hands of gamers. To achieve that end, the company announced Thursday that it will limit the GeForce hash rate to make it less desirable to cryptocurrency miners. The company said the new RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect....
With Ether sinking below $2,000, the price of graphics cards has seen a further decline from June to July. Graphics processing units (GPUs) have become a little cheaper in July amid a continued downtrend in the price of Ether (ETH).According to a review by TechSpot, GPU prices across popular graphics cards are slightly lower in July than they were in June.The lower prices in July are a continuation of the steady decline in GPU prices since the onset of the current crypto market downturn.Indeed, with ETH tanking from over $4,000 in May to below $2,000, mining profitability has also tapered....
Miners used an empty warehouse of an electricity supply company to plug into the grid and mine crypto on a variety of devices, including gaming consoles. Ukrainian authorities have raided an allegedly illicit crypto farm in the country. According to an official announcement from the Security Service of Ukraine, the facility was located on the former premises of JSC Vinnytsiaoblenergo, an electricity supply company. The illegal crypto miners concealed their activities by manipulating electricity meters to steal electricity from JSC Vinnytsiaoblenergo. Described as the largest underground....
Arnhem, the capital of the province of Gelderland and one of the largest cities in the Netherlands, has the first supermarket where you can pay in Bitcoin. The Spar Arnhem Centraal started to accept Bitcoin this week. Spar Arnhem Centraal, opened in March 2014, is a relatively new supermarket near Arnhem central station and the city center. It offers the usual assortment of consumer goods and groceries found in all supermarkets. The supermarket is a key feature of modern life, because it offers a one-stop opportunity to buy everything that we need for daily life. I have long been persuaded....