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Originally posted by karolherbst View Postit's useful for exactly nothing. For all the problem you think you are solving there are way better alternatives. Period.
That said, blockchain will never scale anywhere close to what would be needed to replace cash, and I'm not sure we want it to.
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Originally posted by coder View PostThat's not true. I agree with L_A_G that the bulk of blockchain use is for illicit purposes, but there are plenty of problems in the world where you want traceable transactions and yet there's not a good, cost-effective, and reliable centralized solution or trusted central authority to administer it.
That said, blockchain will never scale anywhere close to what would be needed to replace cash, and I'm not sure we want it to.
The biggest issue with blockhain is, that people can't be protected against scams. And that's a huge issue you wouldn't have without blockchain. Everything else also doesn't matter as much as you think.
People believing in blockchain just don't understand what money really is. And no, it's not some constant value object you give to or take from others. Economies based on blockchain currencies wouldn't work and everybody who understands money knows this.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostIs GPU cryptocurrency mining still a thing today? (I remember the Ethereum times)
I don't see a point to these cards unless their decently cheaper and/or faster at block-chain work!
No coin miner I've read/watched has ever bothered with them! No resell value.
PS. These website ads are ULTRA aggressive! Throwing my page up and down all the time!
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Originally posted by L_A_G View PostSounds to me like someone missed the boat and pretty badly on the cryptocurrency mining craze. Sure, people still do it, but there's boatloads of GPU hardware purchased for that very purpose in the hands of miners and, more importantly, ASIC and FPGA miners that do it in a much more efficient manner. Efficiency also matters as it's the #1 cost involved by a long shot.
For AMD's sake I hope it's just something meant for compute tasks like neural net AI, much like Nvidia's displayless Tesla accelerators, that has just been mislabeled by someone who doesn't know their ass from their elbow when it comes to the market.
Crypto miners are some of the most demanding on earth, optimizing every cent. If AMD is seeing demand, it must be that there's profit here still. I'm going to suggest the firm is not completely stupid launching an entire new SKU into a demand void.Last edited by vegabook; 21 October 2020, 06:32 PM.
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Originally posted by coder View PostDon't most of those projects just reuse Etherium or other established implementations, in which case the nodes could just use existing ASICs already optimized for them?
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