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0 pointsbaseballdork5y ago0 comments

The intent was to cut demand, presumably. If a GPU can't mine ethereum, then ethereum miners won't be competing with gamers to buy that GPU.

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pirocks5y ago

Many people believe the intent was to prevent a glut of gaming gpus when crypto crashes. If you get miners to instead by crypto only ASICS or "mining gpus" then can't be resold.

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pirocks5y ago

Many people believe the intent was to prevent a glut of gaming gpus when crypto crashes. If you get miners to instead by crypto only ASICS or "mining gpus" then can't be resold.

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