Soldato
Can I have one of your free GPUs please.
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If we're serious as a country/species about reducing carbon emissions and all that jazz, then stuff like the above will be very much necessary.Well maybe if everyone had a carbon-footprint-quota things would be different.
People who own V8 gas guzzlers, or leave all the lights on in there homes all the time, or never turn their TVs off, will hit their quotas accordingly.
As I don't have or do the above, I could use my allocation towards gaming, or mining, or heating my house, etc.
Mining farms, as well as individuals who set up home-based farms are edge cases, and annoying because things are more expensive for us, and are wasting more in terms of their relative carbon-footprint-quota.
Someone using their already existing rig to farm when they don't need their GPU for other things? They pay their leccy bills and can use said leccy however they please, that is the way of the world.
Policing it to the point that no one eats meat, travels on long haul flights, or buys cheap clothes from abroad, etc, is the only way you could stop this sort of thing.
Obviously, yes. Until 100% of all electricity is renewable/sustainable. In the entire country/EU/world.Is the environmental impact an issue if you're with a supplier that guarantees 100% renewable energy supply?
That's an excellent term for what's going on. "Competitive burning of energy." As well as other resources needed to manufacture GPUs, including the raw materials and energy cost of production.I rarely find myself in such violent agreement with your good self, but yes. Cryptocurrency is a ******** disaster. Competitive burning of energy, rife with fraud, a huge waste of time and resources.
There is also good reason to believe that the current rally is mostly down to the market manipulation of the tether organisation, one last hurrah before the New York attorney general really sinks their teeth in, from January the 15th. I'm not saying it will definitely crash, it's an irrational, entirely psychology based, speculative market. But if you *are* making gains out of this, remember to take some profit out of the system, because it could go **** up at any moment.
(a timely reminder from the FCA has been published today - https://www.theguardian.com/busines...a-warns-consumers-risk-productis-cryptoassets )
Is that all?
So much effort and expense just for an extra tenner? I could make three times that (and in GBP) in just an hour from servicing one of my neighbours' cars!
Is it mining 24/7, or do you get to actually use the computer for stuff?
I could make three times that (and in GBP) in just an hour from servicing one of my neighbours'
Can I mine you for salt?
I've been mining for about 5 days when not gaming, have about £25 in BTC plus my room is a little warmer. I don't think I'm going to be a millionaire, I don't care about decentralised currency. I just want a little bit of extra money to make this year a little bit less garbage.
I don't mind being the butt of the jokes. But joking aside, there is a serious problem with crypto. It is already - and going to become even more so - an environmental disaster. The system wants to absorb as many GPUs and as much energy as it can. There is no limit. No concept of efficiency. More is better. Always more and more.
The best thing for the planet is if crypto and crypto mining dies a death.
@Th0nt more whataboutery I see. I'd be equally opposed to a scheme that paid people* to leave all their lights and heating and appliances on with all the doors and windows open at all times of the day. *Enough to be a real incentive.
Whilst i'm far from an expert, i thought the whole premise of mining any cryptocurrency was that hashes become harder and longer to mine, so unless the value increases, or newer/efficient hardware is available to increase the speed of mining, there will eventually be a point where the majority of amatuer miners won't be able to keep up - isn't that why most people don't bother mining bitcoin these days?
This thread isn't about "other things" that might be inefficient/wasteful.That's an excellent example of you attacking a group or behaviour yet fail to complain about the other things highlighted. Perfectly summarises the whataboutery you mention when you didnt read about energy wastage of AI - which is apt as the DLSS that nvidia employ for their solution to graphical issues is to burn/comsume/waste energy to make your pixels appear faster?
Hey that is me.CryptoMuch more fun to flash the monies. Lol.
LOL I been getting free GPU's for years,you just do not get it ,it is fine./yawn
Anyway NiceHash will tell you AMD are pretty bad for mining, compared to a 3060Ti or better.
Unless $4 a day sounds like a good return on a £800 investment.
NoCan I have one of your free GPUs please.
It's not free though, is it. You're just choosing to spend the small amount of money that you're actually making on another GPU. Most of us couldn't be arsed with the hassle for a couple of quid a day.LOL I been getting free GPU's for years,you just do not get it ,it is fine.
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Surely if you're making your meagre profit in Bitcoin, you'd spend that on pirated software, cocaine, Russian child brides, and a hitman to bump off the current wife once she gets too old?The lengths some people are going to, to get the latest cards!!
And as a result, pay most of it to cover 'leccy, leaving a few quid a month to eventually pay off your graphics card?The idea is that you invest in the cards and run them 24/7
And that's assuming there isn't a crash tomorrow which makes the whole thing completely unprofitable. Or 1/2 as profitable, so you now need 2 years to pay off that GPU.Surely if you're making your meagre profit in Bitcoin, you'd spend that on pirated software, cocaine, Russian child brides, and a hitman to bump off the current wife once she gets too old?
And as a result, pay most of it to cover 'leccy, leaving a few quid a month to eventually pay off your graphics card?
I'd rather earn the cash in a week and then use the card for gaming, TBH. Some cards are listed as taking over a year to pay off - By the time the current card had been paid off the new ones would probably have been out!
Sorry I missed this earlier.Blimey, you're only 10 days into the year, how bad has it been for you already?
Whilst i'm far from an expert, i thought the whole premise of mining any cryptocurrency was that hashes become harder and longer to mine, so unless the value increases, or newer/efficient hardware is available to increase the speed of mining, there will eventually be a point where the majority of amatuer miners won't be able to keep up - isn't that why most people don't bother mining bitcoin these days?
And as a result, pay most of it to cover 'leccy, leaving a few quid a month to eventually pay off your graphics card?
I'd rather earn the cash in a week and then use the card for gaming, TBH. Some cards are listed as taking over a year to pay off - By the time the current card had been paid off the new ones would probably have been out!