You guys really need to highlight the uniswap activity before 2021 cause I got a cold shoulder from OP since my wallets were turned down because it doesn't meet the uniswap activity in that timeframe.

I do think they can still find profit even from reballing the whole card instead of just 1 or 2 faulty memory. It's because of perspective where we think they do it from a small kind of shop with little tooling. But what about at the industry level with a lot of BGA machines and scale-up processes? I think they can do it much faster, with high precision as well. Once old junks rebrand as new, it may be worth it after all since they got the memory and GPUs for dirt cheap price. All you need is the same pcb with the same memory layout -> all hard work can easily turn into automated.

Yes, they do. The GDDR5 memory is dirt cheap so it might not be worth the hassle of replacing all of them. Cost and labor work to replace all of the memory chips isn't rewarding so sometimes, people sold a faulty VGA with GDDR5 memory for 10 bucks. Usually, if you got like 1 or 2 faulty GDDR5 memory, replacing 1 or 2 is right up everyone's alley.

It isn't like they need to reballing all of the memory. They just took the faulty VGAs with a few bad memory and replace them with the recycled memory that they got from other VGAs. Basically, the frankenstein VGA, you see. Some are greedy enough to retouch the PCB so it looks new and sold it with the tag as a brand-new product. GDDR6/X is now where this process is profitable while GDDR5 is less so. Thanks to the crypto mining boon back in the heyday leading to the massive amount of GDDR5 flooring the market, so you're half-right on your assessment.

Recycling old memory chips has been a trade for China's brands for a while. Not just GPU memory but also others like RAM, and NAND flash memory,... You may not know, but some China NVMe SSD also uses shitty or low-yield NAND or even recycled NAND from used SSDs. The same for some questionable Chinese RAM brands like Kingfast or Kingspec (copycat of Kingston name).
Dead VGA cards with untouched VRAM could still fetch a good price even if it not working or are completely dead (ten bucks for RX 470/570 model with 8GB last I check). To be honest, it was very eco to make use of everything even the old and busted memory of all kinds. Still, advertising it as a brand-new product is dishonest. My advice: don't take anything from China's market at the face value, check reviews from many other customers or broke-down, disassemble reviews like OP mentioned.

No need to bring on the console vs PC war on this topic. Consoles have traits on their own, I agree with that. But for anyone who wants to tinker with their PC, wants to have more options, or might just simply want their gaming experience at both low heat and silent, PC is where you have every tool to tune for your needs.

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lol China, all bark, no bite. Try to drum up and threaten Pelosi's trip to Taiwan. Because of her history of holding a memorial for all the victims who died at the hand of China communists in the Tiananmen Square 1989 right in the place itself, in 1991 (pic).
No wonder China feels so insecure and against her trip to Taiwan. Now, she landing in Taiwan safe and sound. I never knew Pelosi was this based.

Cap from the wh.gov itself, I kek'd

That would be the promotion runs from the new sportsbooks. Those are very limited and very short time so you shouldn't count on it especially if it weren't run on 'safe bet' match. Instead, it would be best if you looked for a welcome/new reg bonus, which only requires a small minimum deposit for an instant amount of money for you to bets. I think I saw yas bet that open recently have such program, 'deposit minimum $10 to get $200 welcome bonus'.

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Hope I can work with you again.

Even though Trust wallet is on the smartphone, his computer can still be compromised if he has plugged that smartphone into his computer before. So nope, unless he got a new computer and freshly install Win/OS, he can still be at risk of being infected by the hacker virus. This is why everyone tells him to get a new address on a new computer. Another way to make sure is to prune any device he has connected to each other.

Trust me on this since I invested in old Luna and make 30x on it. I also followed the Terra teams and try to understand everything from it cause my investment. The thing is both old Luna and new Luna are done for. Not even worth any money or to be considered as a serious investment except if you're feeling lucky and want to gamble with $50-100.

I say it is still a bit early to say if we actually got out of the bearish trend. The market was all green right now but the FED rate hike still looming and it will be like this at least for the rest of the years. I say we'd see the Crab market, not dump or recover as the overall trend for the crypto market. The best course of action for this is to look for short-term profit from the Crab. You can allocate a part of your portfolio to bag in the top crypto like BTC and ETH for long-term hodl.

Come on, dude. Don't make it like the end of the world for ETH if it goes PoS just because PoW miners can't have the pie of ETH all for themself anymore. I'm sure with the behemoth of ERC20 tokens and smart contracts on the ETH ecosystem. It will keep being on the top 10 at CMC even in the worse dream you have for it. Funny how ETH with PoW is good but ETH without PoW is bad when CMC shows a completely different. It was the PoW coins are being pushed out from the top 10 or 20 CMC. Expect BTC because it was the pioneer as well as the 'gold' of crypto, and ETH with the massive ERC20 tokens.

This brings me back when 2018, I also sold all of my alts turn it to BTC. Got 0.8 BTC from that and I thought I could hodl it for a very long time. When the BTC price hit as low as $4,000, I chicken out and sold that 0.8 BTC for just a little over $3,000. Regret that poor decision ever since.
The only way to be rich in crypto that you should not be active in the scene, just buy some BTC and store it somewhere. Only sell it when the price is good after many years just like your friend got lucky because he forgot about that 1 BTC he invested years ago.

Some interesting news might be related to Natural Gas. China seems likely to drop the ban on Aussie's Coal to meet its energy demand as Natural Gas prices become so high. Some EU countries have also made some moves to turn on the old Coal plants. Do you think Coal prices will increase more in the future as more countries turn to it as an alternative to Natural Gas? Other than the obvious that Coal has more CO2 emissions compared to Natural Gas, do you think even with the increase in price for Coal in the foreseen future, it's still cheaper and less political burden compare to Natural Gas in the long run?
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Maybe we don't need a bull run to see ETH price increase thanks to ETH 2.0 PoS. Just look how the crypto market is in such a boring state of crypto winter. Investors are desperate for anything to hype up and at least, have really strong momentum behind it. ETH 2.0 PoS meets all the criteria so I think it can be a bull on its own. Have you seen how the old LUNA takes all the spotlight? Even in such a sorry state, old LUNA pulls like almost the same amount of trading volume as BTC.

It don't think it could be called a weak mindset. They're very smart, only invest after a strong recovery sign showing the market is indeed back to a bull run. Impatient and bought in the first dip doesn't seem like a good idea to me. You saw how many have said $30k is the lowest for BTC and everyone should buy in the $30k dip? Even right now, BTC is over $20k and not many investors are so sure about this is the dip, the lowest.

Not really, only in the bear market that whales get most of the hate.
Bear market: fuck whales for dumping and make my bag's price lower.
Bull market: hey whales, can you pump my bag's price up or provide the liquidation at a high price?

Big fish, small fish, it doesn't matter anymore since everyone wants to be rich and willing to step on others for profits and gains.

Search on how art pieces are being used in tax evasion. The NFTs look quite the same, especially how NFTs can sold for a ridiculous amount of money without any verification and so lack transparency on the buyer. It's like they could appraise or set any price for it, and donate it to a museum for the charitable deduction on the taxable amount of money they own.

Maybe it was a good trade-off to him since the price to replace a GPU fan is very cheap compared to VRAM. You can replace the GPU fan yourself, the high availability of GPU fans in the after-market. While you can only RMA the card when VRAM breaks or 3rd party GPU repair shop if the warranty expired. So the VRAM is under high priority even at the expense of the GPU fan, I think.