losing GPU mining or something similar is going to kill the grassroots "marketing" if you will, of crypto. I would not be here if it was not for GPU mining for one, and I know that is also the case for many others
Won't be the first time that GPU mining "died" for the most part - consider 2014.
yep and crytpo mining sucked until gpus made a comeback.
it is pretty simple :
more then 100 million gpus can mine at a profit even now it is true. (profit is tiny now)
take that away and adaptation suffers greatly.
also really hurts pc sales.
look at this pc:
Omen 880-160se
Specs
Windows 10 Home
8th Generation Intel® Core i7+ 8700 (Core i7 and Intel® Optane memory)
8 GB memory
16 GB NVMeM.2 SSD with Intel® Optane technology
1 TB HDD storage
Black Interior Paint; External 3.5" Bay; Air Cooling Solution (65w Processor)
Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080Ti 11G SLI
750 W Platinum efficiency power supply
No ODD Option
WLAN RT 8822 ac 2x2 +BT 4.2LE WW
Office Trial
McAfee Livesafe (30 day)
HP USB Wired Keyboard with volume control
2169 usd a pretty good pc and when the 1080ti earn 10 a day this would earn 20 using 2 bucks power which meant why not buy it and think of as a clever rebate.
18 a day is 540 a month or payback in 4 months. If you mined 24/7 with it.
I still Have 1 of three left killing this off was moron stupid. Asic and fpga just needed to wait for a while more to let the base of miners grow bigger.
if they stayed away til 2019 or even later every one of us including them would have earned far more $$.