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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [2018-02-12]Bitmain To Release Ethereum ASIC Miner F3 With 72Gb DDR3 Dram In Q2
by
Chromexnet
on 19/02/2018, 16:54:41 UTC
I dont think people quite understand the amount of gpus are mining eth.  If, and that is a big if this comes out you cant take that amount of gpus and just switch mining to another coin.  Yes in theory you can but that will crush diff in a massive amount of those coins.

This works both ways. Massive number of GPUs mining Eth means that adding a few thousands ASICs wont affect the difficulty at all. Even adding a hundred thousands ASICs wont render GPU mining non-profitable. I wonder how many ASICS Bitmain can produce. There's a shortage of DDR3/4 chips so they will be limited by the number of chips they can source.