Quote from: wtfonly16 on March 27, 2018, 11:56:36 PM

Quote from: junkstory on March 27, 2018, 11:20:36 PM

Quote from: nerdralph on March 27, 2018, 01:50:57 PM

Money. ~$10M/day is made mining ETH now. A year ago it was ~$1M/day, and 15 months ago it was <$500K/day.
Bitmain's ethash miner is not going to have a significant impact, because unlike bitcoin and sia mining, it requires large amounts of RAM. The costs of the RAM significantly exceeds the costs of the ASICs.
At US$450, ETH is now 1/3 of it's peak in Jan, and that is what is having the biggest impact on mining and GPU demand. Summer is coming in the Norther Hemisphere, which means miners with expensive electricity costs will be shutting down rigs. Unless the price of ETH climbs back over $1000, I predict the GPU shortage will be over by mid-summer, and GPU cards will be readily available at their MSRP.

I'm happy to report I was able to get some gtx 1060 6GB Founders Edition on nvidia's website for msrp 299 USD.. I subscribed to their notification and was alerted that they were in stock a day before, then I snagged up a couple.

a couple?? you mean 2... u cant buy more then 2...

Yes, "a couple" means 2. Perhaps it is best not to correct others on English if you don't really know English...