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posted by on Tuesday June 06 2017, @10:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-many-triangles-wasted dept.

AMD Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards, particularly the RX 580 and 570, have been out of stock for weeks now owing to the cryptocurrency mining craze. The market had shifted away from GPU mining a couple of years back after several China based companies launched specialized ASICs that were much faster and more power efficient at resolving the block chain equations necessary to mine Bitcoin and Litecoin, the Gold and Silver of cryptocurrencies.

However GPU mining has seen a massive resurgence over the past little while due to the rising popularity of ASIC resistent coins. Chief among which is Etherium which has seen its price more than triple in a matter of months. AMD's Add-In-Board partners have caught on to this and have already started directly advertising to miners.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:02PM (#521570)

    Something is either useful or its not.

    Clearly, at the moment, people find Bitcoin to be useful.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:06PM (#521572)

    Like tulip bulbs were, but in the end you could still eat those.