Quote from: OgNasty on May 24, 2023, 04:02:32 PM

Quote from: www.Gambler.Casino on May 24, 2023, 12:29:50 PM

We saw 2 bull runs in 2017 and 2021. At that time, mining brought a very large profit, sometimes a video card paid off in a few months.
Do you think that next alt season will be profitable mining and video cards will rise in price again?

It always has been, so it would be a pretty wild change if they no longer were. It's possible though. Most algorithms now have ASICs and if they don't then ASICs or FPGAs can still be created rather quickly to take advantage of anything new. That certainly puts GPUs on the back burner. However, with AI being a massive user of GPUs I would think an obvious solution to this would be a blockchain that somehow powered AI creations using GPUs. If something like this gets created, I could see it's coin being an extremely valuable to "mine" asset.

@OgNasty yes. adopting useful POW could be very interesting and AI seems to be the thing.
However there many issues with that. How would you ensure that the "useful" part of the job is indeed useful and the network can establish consensus? in traditional pow you have all the power directed toward securing the chain, here it would go over to model training/inference/whatever, so how would you prevent from attacking miner injecting invalid blocks (what are valid blocks anyway?), also how you can deal with the potentially massive amounts of data that may be required?
too many questions...

also what's up with that: https://www.rendertoken.com/