[onli]

During the crypto bubble the miners often used regular gpus, sometimes with firmware modification for undervolting that were easily reversible. But we are not in a crypto bubble now, I'm not sure where gp is coming from with that comment.

[josalhor]

> But we are not in a crypto bubble now

In the last year bitcoin is over 200%. Litecoin is almost over 100% (in fact, since April it is over 200%). I have no horse in this race, but I am not sure I would call it "not a bubble".

[onli]

I meant this as "No GPU cyrpto mining bubble as no gpu mining takes place". Bitcoin and Litecoin are not mined with GPUs anymore.

I was under the impression that no one bought GPUs for mining anymore in general, as it's a waste of money compared to specialized hardware. During the last crypto bubble I noticed a lot of regular people building mining PCs, this time I noticed nothing of that sort. However, https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-financial-analysis-suggest... suggests I might have been wrong about that.

[littlecranky67]

But there was a BTC halvening in May 2020 roughly doubling the amount of computing power required to mine same amount of coin. But I am not an expert on the mining economy so I have no idea if GPU mining is still a lucrative business.

[imtringued]

It's a bubble with some room to go even higher. Obviously it's going to pop one day but not today.

[Jonnax]

Hasn't these shifted to mostly ASIC?

[josalhor]

I think you meant to reply to another comment.

[ineedasername]

Did you mean my original comment? I've tracked prices. Also google "GPU shortage" and you'll see articles like clockwork for the last few years, but here's a specific example of a GTX 1060 w/ $249 MSRP that averaged > $350 new & used over it's life, with sharp increases in 2017 after which the price practically never dipped below 125% MSRP: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B01IEKYD5U