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by latchkey 1414 days ago
> Then you have a vested interest in playing down the effect that this waste of energy bubble had/is.

Nope, not at all. My business model doesn't depend on mining forever. I'm not playing down anything. I'm just saying that mining isn't the only reason (and at most 30% the reason) that GPUs were hard to find.

> Funny you mention the RX470, a GPU famously never in stock because of this dumb piramid scheme.

It came out 5 years ago and newer models replaced it.