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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: ETH 1559 and 2.0: Update and Timelines
by
yobigd20
on 13/02/2021, 23:22:54 UTC
No way the gpu mining community would back a DAG size increase. We’d be shooting ourselves in the foot. Almost half of all nvidia gpus currently mining are 6gb, including the most efficient gpu on the market, the 5600xt which is a current generation gpu.  The older eth asics are not significant in numbers and are not even more efficient as the latest generation gpus. The newer ones all have 8+gb already. The only thing DAG size increase accomplishes is chopping out a significant portion of the gpu mining base while tilting the network towards faster takeover by late model 8+gb asics.   The mere idea of it is pretty absurd since it does the opposite of what it’s supposed intended purpose is.  But truth came out the other day that the proposer of it just announced a partnership with asic manufacturers, so the cats out of the bag and massive conflict of interest obviously.