A lot of these are probably old mining cards.
  • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    567·
    11 months ago

    At least having those GPUs training neural networks is vastly preferable to having them mining Bitcoin.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3430·
      11 months ago

      GPUs havent been mining bitcoin for a long time now. Probably almost 10 years.

      The last big coin mined by GPU was ethereum but that stopped last year

      • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        238·
        11 months ago

        Source?

        Edit: Multiple, independent sources have been provided. Thank you, Lemmy.

        • flooppoolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          164·
          11 months ago

          The coin literally went from proof of work to proof of stake or some shit like that. All mining of ETH will no longer generate any value.

              • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
                911·
                11 months ago

                Excellent source, thank you.

                Edit: I’m being downvoted because I asked a guy for a source, he provided one, and I thanked him?

                I’m so fucking done with you dipshits.

                  • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    12·
                    11 months ago

                    The point of asking for a source is to see the source that person is using. I’m also not continuing to doubt. The sources provided back up what the user said and provide validity.

                    But whatever, “do you own research” and all that.

              • TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social
                32·
                11 months ago

                I am over on kbin.social and upvotes and downvotes don’t carry over instances, but on my end there are no downvotes at all in this whole thread. I am just stoned and thought that was interesting.

              • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
                38·
                11 months ago

                I didn’t downvote anything. I asked for a source.

                But the Reddit classic of people taking everything as a person attack has carried over to Lemmy, I see.

                • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
                  83·
                  11 months ago

                  Where did I say it was an attack? Now you’re projecting. I just find it frustrating when someone is being downvoted for something that is verifiably true. It wasn’t directed at you specifically.

              • quicksand@lemm.eeEnglish
                55·
                11 months ago

                Lmao, you don’t have to comment if you don’t know what you’re talking about

                • flooppoolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  71·
                  11 months ago

                  I’m sorry I commented on what I knew about, but I have no control over what the original poster said regarding GPUs, I don’t know what he meant by that either.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          You got the sources you asked for, but your sentiment wasn’t wholly off.

          There are still other crypto being mined on video cards.

          So if you dont think that’s worthwhile for all crypto there’s still a lot of waste

          If you specifically don’t like bitcoin, you’d need to see what the other projects using video cards do to make an informed decision