Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style coolingLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.world – 252 points – 7 months agotomshardware.com53Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsAt least having those GPUs training neural networks is vastly preferable to having them mining Bitcoin.GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years. The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last yearSource? Edit: Multiple, independent sources have been provided. Thank you, Lemmy.The first ASIC came out in 2013 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/04/26/the-rise-of-asics-a-step-by-step-history-of-bitcoin-mining/ It was more profitable to mine alts in 2014 already, like LitecoinYou got the sources you asked for, but your sentiment wasn't wholly off. There are still other crypto being mined on video cards. So if you dont think that's worthwhile for all crypto there's still a lot of waste If you specifically don't like bitcoin, you'd need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decisionI don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias16 more...16 more...16 more...
At least having those GPUs training neural networks is vastly preferable to having them mining Bitcoin.GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years. The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last yearSource? Edit: Multiple, independent sources have been provided. Thank you, Lemmy.The first ASIC came out in 2013 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/04/26/the-rise-of-asics-a-step-by-step-history-of-bitcoin-mining/ It was more profitable to mine alts in 2014 already, like LitecoinYou got the sources you asked for, but your sentiment wasn't wholly off. There are still other crypto being mined on video cards. So if you dont think that's worthwhile for all crypto there's still a lot of waste If you specifically don't like bitcoin, you'd need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decisionI don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias16 more...16 more...16 more...
GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years. The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last yearSource? Edit: Multiple, independent sources have been provided. Thank you, Lemmy.The first ASIC came out in 2013 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/04/26/the-rise-of-asics-a-step-by-step-history-of-bitcoin-mining/ It was more profitable to mine alts in 2014 already, like LitecoinYou got the sources you asked for, but your sentiment wasn't wholly off. There are still other crypto being mined on video cards. So if you dont think that's worthwhile for all crypto there's still a lot of waste If you specifically don't like bitcoin, you'd need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decisionI don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias16 more...16 more...
Source? Edit: Multiple, independent sources have been provided. Thank you, Lemmy.The first ASIC came out in 2013 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/04/26/the-rise-of-asics-a-step-by-step-history-of-bitcoin-mining/ It was more profitable to mine alts in 2014 already, like LitecoinYou got the sources you asked for, but your sentiment wasn't wholly off. There are still other crypto being mined on video cards. So if you dont think that's worthwhile for all crypto there's still a lot of waste If you specifically don't like bitcoin, you'd need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decisionI don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias16 more...
The first ASIC came out in 2013 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/04/26/the-rise-of-asics-a-step-by-step-history-of-bitcoin-mining/ It was more profitable to mine alts in 2014 already, like Litecoin
You got the sources you asked for, but your sentiment wasn't wholly off. There are still other crypto being mined on video cards. So if you dont think that's worthwhile for all crypto there's still a lot of waste If you specifically don't like bitcoin, you'd need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decisionI don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias
At least having those GPUs training neural networks is vastly preferable to having them mining Bitcoin.
GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years.
The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last year
Source?
Edit: Multiple, independent sources have been provided. Thank you, Lemmy.
The first ASIC came out in 2013 https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/04/26/the-rise-of-asics-a-step-by-step-history-of-bitcoin-mining/
It was more profitable to mine alts in 2014 already, like Litecoin
You got the sources you asked for, but your sentiment wasn't wholly off.
There are still other crypto being mined on video cards.
So if you dont think that's worthwhile for all crypto there's still a lot of waste
If you specifically don't like bitcoin, you'd need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decision
I don’t know that I had a sentiment, I just had a doubt and a lack of bias