If he bought doge coins a year ago, he would have 7 Mio now. And that would have been a gamble :)

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1.54" ? looks like you need toothpicks to use those buttons!

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: gabber

Quoting: ArehandoroMining is an environmental disaster.

Funny reading this on a website called "gamingonlinux".

Care to elaborate why?

Because gaming is more pointless then mining...

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Quoting: ArehandoroMining is an environmental disaster.

Funny reading this on a website called "gamingonlinux".

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Quoting: furaxhornyxThe money spent on your GPU is paid off in Ethereum, right ? But this is "virtual value", are there any store or things you can actually buy with this ?

Whether crypto is more or less real then fiat ($ etc.) is another debate. True, there is no government "backing" crypto. But there is also no government printing crypto and thus devaluing the currency.

Fact is: you can easily trade between cryptos, trading them against fiat requires some verficiation. Even paypal gets into the action, AFAIK you can trade BTC already in the US with paypal. And just some weeks ago Tesla announced their plans, this pushed the price of BTC > 50k$ for the first time.

If you want to give it a shot I would recommend to
- open an account on a trading site (i.e. Coinbase [External Link] )
- get the address of your ETH-Wallet (receive, eth)
- start the miner with this address as the target
- check on https://ethermine.org/ [External Link] if it works (may take 30 mins to show up)
- adjust payout threshold to 0.05 (-> it may take some days before you reach this level)

I'm sure you'll find some stores online in your country which accept crypto. Here in Switzerland one of the biggest retailers (digitec/galaxus) accepts Crypto. So I could theoretical buy GPUs with crypto for mining crypto xD

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Quoting: furaxhornyxOut of curiosity, I clicked on the link about dedicated cards [External Link] for mining.

Big title on the page:

NVIDIA CMP HX
Dedicated GPU for Professional Mining

Is "professional mining" a real thing ? :huh:

Current Ethereum Hashrate: 435 TH/s [External Link]
Income from that Hashrate: 566M$/month [External Link]

That's without energy cost, which eats around 25% if you are paying "normal" prices. And much (~5%) less if you have an industry contract.

So not only is professional mining a thing, you can do it too if you have a GPU with more then 4GB of VRAM. I bought some used 5700 XT back in December for ~ 500$, they are payed off now.

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I don't get why people are happy about this castration for mining. As others mentioned before: NVidia is at the same time releasing dedicated mining cards!

- Availability will not improve
- Mining will not stop

All that's happening is: You cannot use your expensive Gaming GPU for mining if you want to.

But loosing liberties seems to be the rage these days ..

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It's a shocking reminder that many of us (myself included) rely too heavily one on single provider for multiple things.

Another reason not to push stadia, google is not our friend. If they were only a big company after money it would be one thing, but the even push politics.

It's good to see the world is starting to wake up and "degoogling" (while we're at it might I also suggest to "defacebook", "detwitter", "deamazon", "deapple" and "demicrosoft").

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Quoting: DribbleondoIn this comment section: "It's corsair and the patent offices fault! Valve did nothing wrong!"

Patents like the one Corsair Gaming holds are legitimate because Paddles on a normal controller hadn't been done before, and it's pretty reasonable for them to patent that kind of design functionality. Patent fraud only really applies to stuff that is insanely generic, or impossible to make, neither of which qualifies this paddles patent. It's no different to patenting a specific controller design.

Valve are not your friends, please stop trying to blame literally everyone but the company doing the wrong.

It's not about which company is behind what. The patent is a joke.

We are talking about button placement. Not months of R&D work and thousands of hours honing something out. It's only "put button there", worth: 4 million.

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If watching a game makes me not want to buy the game it's
a.) a bad game
b.) not a game (since the fun in a game is playing it myself)

Quoting: thoughtfulhippoWait, what? That Phoenix Point that dropped Linux because it "requires a large amount of specialised graphics programming" is now coming to Stadia? I'm guessing they still won't release for Linux. This makes me even more salty!

I know it's almost like Stadia is not good for Linux on the desktop.

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