Why Bitcoin Is Scaring PC Gamers

GameSpot's Tech Editors talk about how Bitcoin mining is terrifying the PC Gaming industry and where the future lies for PC gaming consumers.

By , Gajan Kulasingham , Ryan Schubert , Jimmy Thang , Ryan Peterson , Ben Janca , Michael Higham , Sam Leichtamer , Erick Tay , Robert Handlery , Richard Li , and Joey Yee on March 17, 2018 at 7:56AM PDT

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Dont spread lies please, is already 5-6 years that is worthless to mine bitcoin with GPU, hate cryptocurrency that dont have the option to use ASIC (like Ethereum) and all altcoin that require only gpu power instead of ASIC dedicated hardware. bitcoin miners use dedicated asics, they havent destroy the gpu price ecosystem.

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I’ll pray Nvidia destroys data miners. NVIDIA just needs to disable GPU mining capabilities and then release super CHEAP cards for bitcoin miners.

“Data Mining” the snowflake lifeline.

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@wrestlingdude: Except they won't since they are making bank off them.

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even with 2 or 3 high end videocards it will still take several years to mine 1 coin, and if you're in a pool it's still going to take a long time to even get a piece of a coin.

It's cheaper and more efficient to buy dedicated mining asics. people will learn this the hard way, then they will be stuck with outdated gpu's.

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