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NVIDIA Executive Thinks Cryptocurrencies Add Nothing Useful to Society
The Crypto Mining boom has somewhat died down with the transfer of Ethereum to proof of stake and its no secret that the graphics card manufacturers profited enormously from crypto, though apparently, NVIDIA has changed their stance on crypto. NVIDIA Executive Against Crypto Michael Kegan, Chief Technology Officer at NVIDIA…
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AMD Blames Poor PC Sales For $1.1BN Drop in Q3 Revenue (Doesn’t Mention Crypto)
Typically speaking, most publically traded companies tend to reveal their Q3 revenue results on November 1st (or very shortly after). AMD, however, dropped a little bit of a surprise on the market yesterday by announcing their performance figures early. – Now, for those of you unaware, when revenue figures are…
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Ex-Mining GPUs Get PRESSURE WASHED Ahead of Second-Hand Market Sale – Video!
Following the transition of Ethereum to the new Proof of Stake standard earlier this month, this has effectively resulted in the near-total death of GPU cryptocurrency mining. – As such, with it well known that there are masses of huge mining operations around the world, many of these will now…
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Ethereum Finally Switches to Proof of Stake – Is GPU Mining Now Dead?
It’s been known for quite some time now that Ethereum was looking to apply a pretty dramatic change to the manner in which the cryptocurrency could be mined. – Although we will look at this in more detail shortly, the key distinction was a transition from a ‘Proof of Work’…
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Intel Arc A380 is Now Mining Compatible (But it’s Pretty Crap At It!)
With Intel Arc A380 graphics cards finally arriving in Western markets (well, North America at least) it was clearly only a matter of time before someone was going to see what its cryptocurrency mining capabilities were like. – And following a report via Videocardz, we have our answer and it’s…
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Cryptocurrency Crash Sees Panic Live Stream Sales From Chinese Miners!
Within the space of just one month, the value of Bitcoin has nosedived, and with it, it’s taken many other cryptocurrency coins down with it too! – With its value currently floating around the region of $20,000, while this might still sound like a substantial sum, it shouldn’t be ignored…
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Crypto-Miners Spent $15BN on Graphics Cards Over the Last 2 Years!
It’s hardly any secret that following the boom of cryptocurrency prices throughout 2020 and 2021, this has been a primary factor in why general graphics card prices, and stock levels, have been so poor for general consumers like you and me. – Did you ever wonder though, if we’re not…
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Coinbase Redundancies as ‘Crypto Winter’ Predicted (Why This is Important!)
The last major growth spike in the value of Bitcoin couldn’t have come at a worse time for gaming PC consumers. Beginning its near-vertical trend in March 2020, and coming just months after the launch of AMD and Nvidia’s latest graphics cards, while certainly not the only reason for the…
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Nvidia 30XX LHR Mining Restrictions Have Finally been 100% Beaten!
Although the Nvidia 30XX series of graphics cards have seen a number of moderate changes since they were first released back in late 2020, one of the most substantial revisions the designs saw was the introduction of their Lite Hash Rate (LHR) anti-mining technology. Rolling out to the vast majority…
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Biostar Risks Criticism After Unveiling iMiner A588X8D2 Pre-Built Mining System
Getting a graphics card continues to remain an exceptionally difficult and (generally) expensive task. – While there are, of course, many factors that have led to this situation, it’s hard to deny that the growth in cryptocurrency mining has undoubtedly played a significant role. – In something that may represent…
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Testing Finds the AMD 6600XT is Surprisingly Good at Mining!
Following the release of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT earlier this week (which you can check out our review/s of here!), while it certainly represented itself as an exceptionally competent 1080p gaming graphics card, the overall consensus we took away was that comparatively speaking, it might’ve been just a…
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AMD 6700 XT is Worse than the 5700 XT in Crypto-Mining!
With the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card set to be released on March 18th, one of the biggest questions from the gaming-orientated community is whether, unlike pretty much every other GPU that’s come out since last September, is this one actually going to be available to purchase. In…
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Not Managed to Get A Nvidia 3080? – Then Look Away Now!
With the price of Bitcoin seeing a huge spike over the last few months, and with it hitting a new $34,000 high literally just days ago, it’s not exactly surprising to see that Cryptocurrency mining is back and in a very big way! – Something that clearly will not be…
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Ethereum Classic Blockchain Hit By $400,000 “51% Attack”
Ethereum Classic Blockchain Hit By $400,000 Attack With the crash of the price of Bitcoin in early 2018, cryptocurrency mining isn’t as popular as it once was. That doesn’t, however, mean to say that people are still not actively involved in it and, in addition, that there are literally hundreds…
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Chinese Headmaster Sacked After Mining Set-Up Discovered
Chinese Headmaster Sacked After Mining Set-Up Discovered Despite the cryptocurrency craze having died off (quite significantly) since the start of the year, there are still many people who take it seriously. With a lower bitcoin price (which is generally the driving function though) it’s getting harder to make the ‘mining’…
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