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New coin rush?

When AMD and Nvidia introduced their new AIBs in Q4 2020, they sold out immediately. No one anticipated the demand and attributed it to bots. Gamers complained that once again, they got left out. The suspicion was crypto-miners were the cause of the shortage. We think there is some truth, and proof in that suspicion. The waves of Cryptocurrency mining ...

Jon Peddie

When AMD and Nvidia introduced their new AIBs in Q4 2020, they sold out immediately. No one anticipated the demand and attributed it to bots. Gamers complained that once again, they got left out. The suspicion was crypto-miners were the cause of the shortage. We think there is some truth, and proof in that suspicion. The waves of Cryptocurrency mining are driven by the prices of the coin and those prices are going up. The craze for Cryptocurrency mining was originally driven by hobbyists using GPUs to mine Bitcoins, but Bitcoin mining now relies on ASICS rather than GPUs. As
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