Since late November, the value of Ethereum (ETH, also known as Ether) has more than tripled. Since this cryptocurrency is the most popular among GPU miners, they rushed to buy graphics cards, deepening the shortage of new graphics cards. situation.
However, there is a new mining method in China that is becoming popular, that is, using laptops with built-in GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs to mine. Nowadays, many miners purchase laptops containing RTX 3070 in large quantities and stack them on shelves for mining. It is important to know that RTX 3070 is not the cheapest model, but there are still miners who continue to buy it. Obviously, the profit is quite good.
To prove how ridiculous is the skyrocketing Ether?Bilibili creator fish pond f2pool Go to Starbucks deliberately and connect a laptop with built-in RTX 3060 to the wall socket for mining. It can mine 0.00053 ETH in 2 hours, which is equivalent to US$ 0.89.
In short, if NVIDIA and major AIC board card manufacturers no longer implement miners’ anti-blocking measures, any cryptocurrency crash will inevitably increase inventory pressure again, leading to unsuccessful implementation of new cards.
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