Also the cryptos are having bad days in the market today.
Might have something to do with this:
That must be the same kind of āsoonā that we hear about when people talk about fusion power. ;-)
From all Iāve seen (I donāt follow crypto closely) itās on track to merge this year.
Main problem is you need 32 ETH to stake and thatās like $140k.
As soon as this happens someone will create another cryptocurrency that uses GPU mining and everyone will switch to that, just like how people transitioned to mining etherium after bitcoin stopped being viable with GPUs.
And this is why governments need to step up and make cryptocurrency difficult to exchange for the money most everyone else uses. Let the libertarian digital goldbugs and the k1ddie pr0n and heroin enthusiasts mine it in small quantities for their shitty hoarding/illicit transactions, and leave the rest of us out of it. Itāll be a lot harder for ransomware assholes to profit from their endeavors too, once itās not easy to exchange that shit for real money. And graphics card prices will finally come back down to earth. Win effing Win.
Menzo
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There are plenty of good reasons to regulate cryptocurrency. Lowering the price of graphics cards for PC gamers is not one of them.
I agree. I was simply saying that itās icing on the cake.
The environmental/social costs of cryptocurrencies and their mining alone are enough to condemn them.
Yes thatās why I said it will momentarily go away.
I noticed that ShopBLT now has new line items for LHR cards. Maybe preorder one before the line gets really long?
Of course I donāt think this will come of anything, they will likely move the whole line over from the non-LHR models given that there wonāt be non-LHR models Iām pretty sure. But maybe if youāre already in the LHR line they wonāt boot you to the back if they do transfer peeps.
EVGA search showing a lot of them, change to your preferred card:
http://www.shopblt.com/search/order_id=!ORDERID!&s_max=25&t_all=1&s_all=EVGA+RTX&search=Search
For EVGA, the model numbers end in -KL. I think they are supposed to start shipping end of May? Iām not sure if thatās chips from NVIDIA to gpu manufacturers or gpus to consumers.
Edit: They dropped it.
They seem to be shifting stuff around in the database. I found a couple then they were gone
Yep, looks like theyāre all gone now. Iām guessing Iāll get an email soon asking me to change my order to the -KR model if I want but theyāre canceling.
Not necessarily. Stuff that isnāt available to order canāt be searched for. If you have an order in, it is likely valid. Shame, I would have happily ordered one for my son.
Well, fingers crossed. At some point the availability view thing started crashing but before that happened there were only a couple hundred each in line for the 2 different 3060TIs that I put myself down for (one XC I think, and the other the FTW).
If I end up with multiple cards Iāll post here, but I doubt Iāll end up with even 1! :D
I would happily take the other off your hands, whichever you decide to keep, if you do get both.
Alternative cryptocurrencies already exist in droves. At this point Iām not sure Ethereum switching to proof-of-stake would even cause a hiccup in GPU demand.
Ethereum is #2 and ahead of #3 by a very large margin but yes there are tons of other coins that could in theory pull ahead.
Tim_N
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Most of which are themselves proof-of-stake, but not all. Once Ethereum proof-of-stake is out, I really doubt that anyone will be buying 20 GPUs to mine ravencoin or cortex or whatever else. They werenāt even profitable at the height of the mania a couple of months ago.
Aceris
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Given how easily these prices are manipulated and how many peopleās interest it would be to have a high value GPUable PoW coin, it seems likely one of them will get boosted.
Actually whether of not this happens will be an interesting indicator of the extent that miners are capable of creating demanding for altcoins.
