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by short12 1626 days ago
I think you are really over estimating the size and importance of gamers
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dagaci 1626 days ago
I don't think so... the PC gamer population is estimated to be about 1750 million, there are estimated to be around 1 million crypto miners.
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nacs 1626 days ago
That 1.7 billion probably includes anyone has that has played Solitaire on their computer once in the last year. I doubt even 25% of that are gamers that play GPU intensive games.

The 1 million crypto miners on the other hand are devoting at least 1 CPU/GPU to mining 24/7.

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dagaci 1625 days ago
No it PC gamers (not a machine count), i was being specific, basically as in basically Windows Gamers with fraction of other

https://www.statista.com/statistics/420621/number-of-pc-game...

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xboxnolifes 1626 days ago
A very large portion of that number is phone gamers. Over half iirc. And nobody in any part of the gamer group is gaming 24/7.
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