The new ones come with plastic screws.
GN had to do a lot of finagling to cause a fire, if you watch the full video.
Even if the chip shortages finally end in another year or more, I donāt see how cryptocurrency mining and the ransomware cancer that it permits is going to ever end. If hackers can get away scot-free, what incentive do they have to stop doing that to ever more companies etc., thus driving up the demand for crypto, which in turn will keep driving up the demand for graphics cards?
Tim_N
8529
Something I donāt understand is that if hackers want bitcoin sent to a certain address, canāt authorities keep tabs on that bitcoin wallet and monitor the blockchain for any transaction involving that wallet? If the wallet sends bitcoin to an exchange wallet, then in theory they should be able to get the exchange to surrender the identity of the user associated with that wallet (as exchanges require verification before users can withdraw fiat currency).
KevinC
8530
Iād suggest checking in the AM. Both my friend and I were able to snag 3080 systems that way after a week or two of periodically trying. This was in the latter part of 2020, though, I donāt know if the inventory issues have become even worse.
Authorities are really good at tracking bitcoin and most crypto payments in the distributed ledgers. However, smart criminals donāt send it directly to exchanges, they instead send it to mixer services which takes X coins and splits them up into many different transactions to many different wallets, where eventually all of it (minus fees) ends up at a destination wallet. The vast amount of transactions and splitting of money amounts (and many people using the services, not just the one) make it really hard to trace.
Thereās also a crypto currency called Monero whose whole point is they have a distributed ledger but the transaction history is somehow not visible. So criminals will take bitcoin, swap it for Monero, then swap it to Bitcoin on another wallet address in different amounts, and thereās no easy way to trace it all the way through.
I can confirm this. I own an Aurora R8 that apparently canāt fit the new 30XX cards unless I do some fancy cutting and/or scraping.
fuck that shit. No really, fuck that shit. Canāt we just outlaw any currency not backed by a national bank?
Tim_N
8534
Thatās really informative, thanks.
Too right. This stupid digital gold-buggery (pun very much intended) can DIAF.
Apparently all the bloodsuckers scalping 3080s gave these guys an idea:
So when you say youād give your left arm for a new GPUā¦
Has anyone got experience ordering from 192pc.com ? I have tried order an obscure GPU I really want, but the order status goes straight to On Hold and then Cancelled, with no email or notification of why. Donāt know if they donāt like my card, or the product is gone, or whatever, itz frustrating.
Menzo
8539
Now that Nvidia has made hundreds of millions of dollars from cryptocurency miners theyāre back to caring about gamers.
Sure they areā¦
But honestly I donāt think itās down to them anyway. If the governments of the world had any balls whatsoever theyād eliminate exchanges of cryptocurrencies for real money (restricting payments for them to suitcases/duffel bags full of cash) and the price of them would fall off a cliff, killing the demand for mining.
Tim_N
8542
Yes, the overriding policy priority of world governments should be to get new GPUs in the hands of PC gamers as they were originally intended.
That, and cryptocurrencies are in themselves bullshit.
Arguably, cracking down on cryptocurrency could be seen as a broader crackdown on cybercrime in general, as it seems there is a non-trivial overlap between the two areas.
Iām curious as to what kind of dent cryptocurrency is making on chip shortages in other markets, as well. I would assume itās not much, but perhaps Iām wrong.
Ethereum is moving to proof of stake very soon anyway so this problem will at least momentarily go away. Bitcoin is already too difficult to mine on gpus.
