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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Bitcoin switched to industrial ASICs a long time ago, and Ethereum has completely moved away from proof-of-work mining in 2022, see: https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/merge/

The Merge was executed on September 15, 2022. This completed Ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake consensus, officially deprecating proof-of-work and reducing energy consumption by ~99.95%.

GPU mining is pretty much completely dead because after Ethereum switched the yields on everything else tanked, no one mines with GPUs anymore, at least not for any major blockchain. GPUs are mainly being used with AI now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That doesn't mean that their effect on the GPU market will up and vanish overnight. Market correction doesn't usually go down as fast as it goes up.

Edit: add to that the tariff situation and the standoff with China and Taiwan (where all the processors for gpus are made), and you have a situation where things are just going to get more expensive no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

It's AI at this point. Nvidia considers the gamer division to be vestigial. They were a $700B market cap company that was primarily known for gaming GPUs. They are now quadruple that with AI, and that's even with some recent hits to their stock price.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The Merge was executed on September 15, 2022. This completed Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake consensus, officially deprecating proof-of-work and reducing energy consumption by ~99.95%.

I don't follow crypto trends so I hadn't heard about this either.

I had to look up proof-of-stake, and for Ethereum apparently is required to stake 32 coins to operate a node. Another google search shows me a single Ethereum coin is just north of $2k USD. So someone mining Etherium today needs to have more than $64k if Etherium to even run a node now?!

[–] Croquette 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pay to play baby! Let's reinvent the banking system by doing the same exact shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not really to be honest, the power is in the decentralization, permissionless and opensource nature of the system. You can't get that out of the traditional system

Of course not all networks are the same and there are always shit ones out there that compromise on those tenets, but if you do your due dilligence, you will see there is value in some of them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No, not really, you can start staking with as many as you want, see pooled staking: https://ethereum.org/en/staking/pools/

Staking pools are a collaborative approach to allow many with smaller amounts of ETH to obtain the 32 ETH required to activate a set of validator keys

You earn rewards proportional to the amount you stake

You only need 32 ETH to stake if you want to solo stake / home stake and you don't pool resources with anyone else, see https://ethereum.org/en/staking/solo/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It was 4k per coin. Source: me as I cry with my 2 ETH. 😭