Quote from: maxpaxmaster on January 21, 2022, 06:13:37 PM

Just a word of caution to the flux developers regarding the Nvidia partnership:

Nvidia corporation is heavily influenced and to a great degree owned by Black Rock and Vanguard. These corporations together own essentially all significant corporations of the world as well as all of the biggest banks. This means that they do not benefit from the idea that participants and participants only, control, develop, fund and reap benefit from decentralized technology. It might be a trap to gain influence into potential future web3 infrastructure in preparation to control it like they control web2 now. They do not benefit from the people being in control of their own technology.

https://www.holdingschannel.com/funds/holding-nvda/
https://www.holdingschannel.com/all/stocks-held-by-blackrock-inc/
https://www.holdingschannel.com/13f/vanguard-group-inc-top-holdings/

It might just not mean anything, but seeing how all the other tech companies behave now, it may be wise to be cautious.

If i'm not mistaken 80% of GPU mining now is ETH mining.
Last year miners earned 33 billion on ETH mining. Most of GPU cards from Nvidia and of course it's very profitable for Nvidia too.
If ETH will go to POS this or next year that means miners and Nvidia too need new coin that can replace ETH.
Now most close to ETH is ETC and maybe RVN.
Maybe Nvidia hopes for FLUX in this way.