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Comment by rokkamokka

14 hours ago

Bitcoin is no longer mined by GPUs but by ASICs

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rokkamokka

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ivewonyoung  14 hours ago

Don't the ASICs compete with the same fab capacity that fabs GPUs, RAM, SSDs etc.

  • svnt  14 hours ago

    You’re fractionally right with GPUs but RAM and SSDs run on different processes at different fabs.

  • marcosdumay  14 hours ago

    They compete with older GPUs. Not new ones, not RAM, and not SSDs.

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