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by irthomasthomas 1597 days ago
How do crypto miners make use of the GPU's now? I did the sums some weeks ago, and even assuming free electric, the inflated price of the cards made it very difficult to become profitable. Best case, it's like 2 years before you break even
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When markets only go up they bank on appreciation of the underlying cryptocurrency, and the ability to resell hardware into a scalped market when done.