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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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Gamers Are (Again) Warned to Be Vigilant Against Cheap Ex-Mining Graphics Cards
With graphics card-based Cryptocurrency mining effectively dead now following the switch of Ethereum to its new ‘proof of stake’ standard late last year, this has seen the second-hand market absolutely flooded (in some regions at least) with relatively cheap, and by proxy, highly attractive GPU models. – With this in…
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Nvidia Removes Lite Hash Rate (LHR) Restrictions in its Latest GPU Driver?
On the surface of things, the latest graphics card driver release by Nvidia was fairly easy to understand. It brought official support for their new 4090 GPU and it also allowed for some RTX optimisations in DirectX12 gaming. – Over the last few days, however, a harder look into the…
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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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MSI 3080 Graphics Card with 20GB of VRAM Appears Online!
It’s not exactly a secret that while we humble consumers were struggling to get graphics cards throughout 2021, many were ultimately ending up in the hands of cryptocurrency mining organisations (often being sent there direct from the manufacturer). By and large, though, I think most would rightly assume that while…
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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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Chinese OEMs to Blame For Overpriced Nvidia 3060/3070 Laptops?
While the desktop graphics card situation has improved quite notably over the last 6 months, I daresay that many of you are more than a little aware that the laptop situation hasn’t been quite as positive. – Stock is definitely out there, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that…
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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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Nvidia Fined $5.5M For Deliberately Blurring GPU Sales to the Crypto Market!
It has widely been speculated for quite some time now that when it has come to Nvidia’s end-of-year financial reports, they have always been somewhat deliberately vague about how much money the company has earned through the direct sale of graphics cards to cryptocurrency mining organisations. – This issue first…
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Biostar Launches its TB560-BTC PRO MINING Motherboard
BIOSTAR has announced the launch of its latest TB560-BTC PRO mining motherboard. Designed to support Intel’s 10th/11th generation processors in the LGA1200 package, the new TB560-BTC PRO mining motherboard brings outstanding utility to your next mining station. Biostar TB560-BTC PRO MINING Motherboard Capable of supporting up to 12 graphic cards,…
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Bitcoin Donors Send Over $13.7M to Ukraine! – But Scams Also Appear!
Following Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine last week, the situation in the region has clearly been more than a little distressing. Admittedly, it’s significantly more so for the people actually living there, but the international community is generally appalled at what they mostly view as an unprovoked act of…
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