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melk
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Gridcoin is the only crypto I

Gridcoin is the only crypto I am interested in because it rewards crunching BOINC tasks.

Markus Windisch
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melk schrieb: Gridcoin is

melk wrote:

Gridcoin is the only crypto I am interested in because it rewards crunching BOINC tasks.

Interesting, I will look into it. Always wondered why no cryptocurrency uses its "Proof of Work" for something meaningful. Guess I was wrong ;)

Mike Hewson
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Well value, like beauty, is

Well value, like beauty, is where you find it I guess. For me the lack of a central validating authority - a key proposal of cryptocurrencies is that they be independent of such things - is not a strength but a weakness. But opinions will differ. 

Now : on another tack entirely, does the usage of a card as a crypto-miner degrade it especially because of that role ? I ask this as a genuine query as to their value for other purposes once they are discarded from mining. On Ebay for instance it seems oft quoted as a virtue that one hasn't been used for cryptocurrency purposes ( and how could you actually verify that anyway ). Could they be a good buy ?

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

mikey
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Mike Hewson wrote: Well

Mike Hewson wrote:

Well value, like beauty, is where you find it I guess. For me the lack of a central validating authority - a key proposal of cryptocurrencies is that they be independent of such things - is not a strength but a weakness. But opinions will differ. 

Now : on another tack entirely, does the usage of a card as a crypto-miner degrade it especially because of that role ? I ask this as a genuine query as to their value for other purposes once they are discarded from mining. On Ebay for instance it seems oft quoted as a virtue that one hasn't been used for cryptocurrency purposes ( and how could you actually verify that anyway ). Could they be a good buy ?

Cheers, Mike.

I saw a study somewhere that I can't find right now that said unless the card was run for a LONG time as a crypto miner then it's no different than a avid gamer using the card. Crypto people run their cards 24/7, just like we crunchers do, the key is they will run hundreds or thousands of them at one time in a mining rig.

I actually got a mining rig for Christmas one year and was going to let it crunch, I wasn't putting crypto type cards in it, but quit after I realized I didn't really have the room for it. 8 gpu's in one rig could put out some RAC.

Markus Windisch
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Mike Hewson schrieb: On Ebay

Mike Hewson wrote:

On Ebay for instance it seems oft quoted as a virtue that one hasn't been used for cryptocurrency purposes ( and how could you actually verify that anyway ). Could they be a good buy ?

There's no way to tell if it was used for mining a lot afaik.

After a longer time of use there's a higher chance of broken capacitators for example. People who repair graphics cards replace these very often. But eventually these cards are better than some card which has been used in a dusty gaming computer in a moisty room. You never know.

Also: miners often undervolt these cards because they become more efficient, it's all about the used energy vs. crunching. Gamer tend to overclock / overvolt ;)

I would totally buy one of these cards if it's cheap.

Tom M
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Cheap!!!  ????  Where, where!

Cheap!!!  ????  Where, where!

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Markus Windisch
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Tom M schrieb: Cheap!!! 

Tom M wrote:

Cheap!!!  ????  Where, where!

Better question would be: when?

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