My sources in Shenzen shared with me that come November, we may see a sharp drop in hash due to 4GB cards going offline. This should give us enough time to get ready...
Yes, this is why I jumped in whole hog on new cards, ETH doubling was just gravy. I expect to see a 25-50% hashrate drop.
I am thinking this could last until early january.
just remember that the bitmain eth miner can be upgraded to more ram and mine .
the miner was not very efficient so if they used all the same parts but more ram 🐑 it would not be as good as amd 5700.
i would think they could make one with more ram and more efficient. I would look out for this to occur.
May take until January and wont be done unless mining ⛏ keeps doing well.
This fear of mine has prevented me from really pushing on buying cards.
a decent 5700xt is about $650--$700?
this is far better than our 2017 GPU madness where all of us here guilty buying thousand dollar 1080tis.
Come end of year, I would not want to get caught forced to buy a thousand dollar 5700.
I am regretting not getting a few dozen of that OEM 5700XT under $400 in early August
maybe a mining card version of 5700xt coming soon?
will AMD listen to miners once again?