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Yellow Yam Scam · Jan 18, 2019

A new kpop group called Z-GIRLS was announced today.

Apparently there is some kind of bizarre cryptocurrency marketing scheme surrounding them but even native Korean speakers can't figure out what the fuck the production company is trying to say:

"The Project’s business model has star creation business and global online monetisation platform. On one side, the proceeds from the ITO will be used to accelerate creating infrastructure for this star creation business, and on the other hand it will create global online monetisation platform, which will tokenize the revenue opportunities generated by the star creation business, including concert tickets, merchandise, online content and admission to exclusive events.

Scheme of the token’s turnover in the ZPOP Coin ecosystem"

Should be a nice little trainwreck. https://z-popdream.io/

theshep · Feb 4, 2019

Digital-asset exchange Quadriga CX has a $275 million problem with no obvious solution - just the latest cautionary tale in the unregulated world of cryptocurrencies.

The online startup can't retrieve about $C190 million ($201 million) in Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether and other digital tokens held for its customers, according to court documents filed January 31 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nor can Vancouver-based Quadriga CX pay the $C70 million ($74 million) in cash they're owed.

Access to Quadriga CX's digital "wallets" - an application that stores the keys to send and receive cryptocurrencies - appears to have been lost with the passing of Quadriga CX chief executive Officer Gerald Cotten, who died December 9 in India from complications of Crohn's disease. He was 30.

Cotten was always conscious about security - the laptop, email addresses and messaging system he used to run the 5-year-old business were encrypted, according to an affidavit from his widow, Jennifer Robertson. He took sole responsibility for the handling of funds and coins and the banking and accounting side of the business and, to avoid being hacked, moved the 'majority' of digital coins into cold storage.

His security measures are understandable. Virtual currency exchanges suffered at least five major attacks last year. Japan, home to some of the world's most active digital-asset exchanges, has also hosted two of the biggest known crypto hacks: the Mt. Gox debacle of 2014 and the theft of nearly $US500 million in digital tokens from Coincheck Inc. last January.

The problem is, Robertson said she can't find his passwords or any business records for the company. Experts brought in to try to hack into Cotten's other computers and mobile phone met with only 'limited success' and attempts to circumvent an encrypted USB key have been foiled, his widow, who lives a suburb of Halifax, said in the court filing.

'After Gerry's death, Quadriga's inventory of cryptocurrency has become unavailable and some of it may be lost,' Robertson said, adding that the company's access to currency has been 'severely compromised' and the firm has been unable to negotiate bank drafts provided by different payment processors.

Quadriga CX's directors posted a notice on the firm's website on Jan. 31 that it was asking the Nova Scotia court for creditor protection while they address "significant financial issues' affecting their ability to serve customers. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, and Ernst & Young has been chosen as a proposed monitor.

"For the past weeks, we have worked extensively to address our liquidity issues, which include attempting to locate and secure our very significant cryptocurrency reserves held in cold wallets, and that are required to satisfy customer cryptocurrency balances on deposit, as well as sourcing a financial institution to accept the bank drafts that are to be transferred to us,' the firm said.

"Unfortunately, these efforts have not been successful.'

As is often the case with crypto, the episode has raised speculation on Reddit's online forums, where posters are wondering aloud if the business was a scam, calling for class-action lawsuits and even concocting conspiracy theories that call into question whether the CEO is even deceased. The latest online speculation suggests that Quadriga CX funds have been moving -- even though the firm claims they can't get access.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/mar...-worth-of-coins-and-cash-20190205-p50vp6.html

theyarewatching · Feb 19, 2019

A book on the Winklevosses is coming out https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Billionaires-Genius-Betrayal-Redemption/dp/1250217741

BarberFerdinand · Mar 19, 2019

Intel and the Department of Energy are building America's first exascale supercomputer, a computer capable of a quintillion calculations per second

Intel and the Department of Energy are building Aurora, the US's first exascale supercomputer. It could do 1 quintillion calculations per second.

www.businessinsider.com

Intel, Department of Energy build first exascale supercomputer in U.S…

archived 18 Mar 2019 21:27:00 UTC

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Intel said on Monday that it would build the US's most powerful supercomputer, so fast that it could process 1 quintillion — 1 billion times 1 billion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 — calculations per second.
To put that in perspective: If every person on Earth did one calculation (say, a math problem involving algebra) per second, it would take everyone over four years to do all the calculations Aurora could do in one second.
Intel and the US Department of Energy said Aurora would be the US's first exascale supercomputer, with a performance of 1 exaflop, when it's completed in 2021.
That kind of number-crunching brawn, the computer's creators hope, will enable great leaps in everything from cancer research to renewable-energy development.
Aurora, set to be developed by Intel and its subcontractor Cray at the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, would far surpass the abilities of supercomputers today.
It's likely to be the most powerful supercomputer in not just the US but the world, though Rick Stevens, an associate laboratory director at Argonne, said that other countries might also be working on exascale supercomputers.

Rajeeb Hazra, a corporate vice president and general manager at Intel. Intel
The effort marks a "transformational" moment in the evolution of high-performance computing, Rajeeb Hazra, an Intel corporate vice president and general manager of its enterprise and government group, told Business Insider.
What Aurora could do
A computer that powerful is no small thing. Though Intel didn't unveil the technical details of the system, supercomputers typically cover thousands of square feet and have thousands of nodes.
When it's finished, this supercomputer should be able to do space simulations, drug discovery, and more. The government said it planned to use it to develop applications in science, energy, and defense. Aurora could also be used by universities and national labs.
For example, it could be used to safely simulate and test weapons — without actually setting them off or endangering people — or design better batteries, wind-power systems, or nuclear reactors. It could also be used to better understand earthquake hazards and model the risks of climate change.
It could even be used for research on cancer, cardiac issues, traumatic brain injuries, and suicide prevention, especially among veterans. The supercomputer will be designed to apply large-scale data analytics and machine learning to understand the risk factors for these kinds of physical and mental health problems to help prevent them.
Read more:The 3rd-most powerful supercomputer in the world was turned on at a classified government lab in California. Here's what the 7,000 square foot 'mini city' of processing power is like up close.
Intel, which says it helps power over 460 of the top 500 supercomputers, has worked with the Department of Energy for about two decades. It said Aurora would be five times as fast as the most powerful supercomputer, IBM's Summit.
The Department of Energy's contract with Intel and Cray is worth over $500 million to build Aurora, which Secretary of Energy Rick Perry authorized in 2017. The department also plans to build additional exascale supercomputers to start working between 2021 and 2023.
"The biggest challenge is also probably the most exciting part: to envision and create technologies that have never been created before," Hazra said. "Because this machine requires a level of capability we haven't seen before, the biggest risk is we're inventing something new — but to us, that's also the most exciting part."

Get the latest Intel stock price here.

I'm clueless, could this trigger the 51% crypto-thingy?

CrunkLord420 · Mar 19, 2019

BarberFerdinand said:
Intel and the Department of Energy are building America's first exascale supercomputer, a computer capable of a quintillion calculations per second

Intel and the Department of Energy are building Aurora, the US's first exascale supercomputer. It could do 1 quintillion calculations per second.

www.businessinsider.com

Intel, Department of Energy build first exascale supercomputer in U.S…

archived 18 Mar 2019 21:27:00 UTC

archive.fo

Intel said on Monday that it would build the US's most powerful supercomputer, so fast that it could process 1 quintillion — 1 billion times 1 billion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 — calculations per second.
To put that in perspective: If every person on Earth did one calculation (say, a math problem involving algebra) per second, it would take everyone over four years to do all the calculations Aurora could do in one second.
Intel and the US Department of Energy said Aurora would be the US's first exascale supercomputer, with a performance of 1 exaflop, when it's completed in 2021.
That kind of number-crunching brawn, the computer's creators hope, will enable great leaps in everything from cancer research to renewable-energy development.
Aurora, set to be developed by Intel and its subcontractor Cray at the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, would far surpass the abilities of supercomputers today.
It's likely to be the most powerful supercomputer in not just the US but the world, though Rick Stevens, an associate laboratory director at Argonne, said that other countries might also be working on exascale supercomputers.

Rajeeb Hazra, a corporate vice president and general manager at Intel. Intel
The effort marks a "transformational" moment in the evolution of high-performance computing, Rajeeb Hazra, an Intel corporate vice president and general manager of its enterprise and government group, told Business Insider.
What Aurora could do
A computer that powerful is no small thing. Though Intel didn't unveil the technical details of the system, supercomputers typically cover thousands of square feet and have thousands of nodes.
When it's finished, this supercomputer should be able to do space simulations, drug discovery, and more. The government said it planned to use it to develop applications in science, energy, and defense. Aurora could also be used by universities and national labs.
For example, it could be used to safely simulate and test weapons — without actually setting them off or endangering people — or design better batteries, wind-power systems, or nuclear reactors. It could also be used to better understand earthquake hazards and model the risks of climate change.
It could even be used for research on cancer, cardiac issues, traumatic brain injuries, and suicide prevention, especially among veterans. The supercomputer will be designed to apply large-scale data analytics and machine learning to understand the risk factors for these kinds of physical and mental health problems to help prevent them.
Read more:The 3rd-most powerful supercomputer in the world was turned on at a classified government lab in California. Here's what the 7,000 square foot 'mini city' of processing power is like up close.
Intel, which says it helps power over 460 of the top 500 supercomputers, has worked with the Department of Energy for about two decades. It said Aurora would be five times as fast as the most powerful supercomputer, IBM's Summit.
The Department of Energy's contract with Intel and Cray is worth over $500 million to build Aurora, which Secretary of Energy Rick Perry authorized in 2017. The department also plans to build additional exascale supercomputers to start working between 2021 and 2023.
"The biggest challenge is also probably the most exciting part: to envision and create technologies that have never been created before," Hazra said. "Because this machine requires a level of capability we haven't seen before, the biggest risk is we're inventing something new — but to us, that's also the most exciting part."

Get the latest Intel stock price here.

I'm clueless, could this trigger the 51% crypto-thingy?

The Aurora consists of many Intel Xe graphics cards (which don't really exist yet), which may or may not end up supporting OpenCL or CUDA. Assuming we're comparing FLOP/s to FLOP/s it be the equivalent of about ~90k NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti depending on what numbers you use (~11 TFLOP/s). But this is comparison is inherently invalid due to architecture and API differences.

It's likely that in order for the Aurora to begin mining any coin new software will need to written, at which point it will likely be able to 51% many medium sized altcoins, but this is already true with conventional GPU mining facilities.

As for BTC mining, it would have a serious handicap against actual ASICs and I'd wager to say no, it wouldn't even get close. But this is speculation since the exact technical specifications don't even exist yet.

The real threat of a 51% is China nationalizing the miners currently inside the country.

Corbin Dallas Multipass · Mar 22, 2019

Null said:
https://hashnode.com/post/how-to-bu...-in-next-20-minutes-cjbcpwzec01c93awtbij90uzn

@14⚡⚡ weev ⚡⚡88 @neger psykolog @CrunkLord420

Ok children, weev wants me to launch a kf eth token using part of my fabulous company as stake. It seems trivial.

What do you think?

@Null Why the fuck are you doing anything for weev? Like, honestly, he's an actual for real neo-nazi (at least, he RPs as one). Not far right, not alt-right, actual neo nazi.

I would just love to know why you support him? I know why you don't ban him, and agree with that, as free speech is obviously very important to you (and me). Plus letting neo nazis freely share their idiotic philosophy is probably the best way to show how stupid it is. But none of that explains why you seem to... I dunno... like the guy.

I mean, obviously I'm just a rando internet jackass, but I can't be the only one wondering.

BillionBisonBucks · Mar 24, 2019

Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
@Null Why the fuck are you doing anything for weev? Like, honestly, he's an actual for real neo-nazi (at least, he RPs as one). Not far right, not alt-right, actual neo nazi.

I would just love to know why you support him? I know why you don't ban him, and agree with that, as free speech is obviously very important to you (and me). Plus letting neo nazis freely share their idiotic philosophy is probably the best way to show how stupid it is. But none of that explains why you seem to... I dunno... like the guy.

I mean, obviously I'm just a rando internet jackass, but I can't be the only one wondering.

They have a lot in common

Haramburger · Aug 16, 2019

This is probably a good way to get started, right?

RollerCoin – Online Bitcoin Mining Simulator Game

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rollercoin.com

TheRedChair · Sep 2, 2019

Avast and French police stop cryptomining worm, disinfect 850,000 computers. Enjoy.

Avast and French police stop cryptomining worm, disinfect 850,000 computers

Retadup is a malicious worm—self-replicating malware—that surreptitiously uses a computer’s processor to mine cryptocurrency, which generates money for the operators. It’s also able to run other types of malware, such as ransomware, and is commonly spread via attachments, file-sharing networks…

www.techspot.com

Sexy Potoo · Sep 6, 2019

Something Very Strange Is Going On With Bitcoin And BTC Google Searches
Tl;Dr :"BTC" google searches have suddenly surpassed "bitcoin" google searches by a huge margin
Bitcoin =blue, BTC = red

Something Very Strange Is Going On With Bitcoin And BTC Google Searches

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices are well known to be closely tied to media and general public interest–though that could be changing...

www.forbes.com

Thistle · Jan 2, 2020

600+ People deserve an award for most gullible. Malicious Chrome extension pretending to be a crypto wallet extension.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-extension-caught-stealing-crypto-wallet-private-keys/ (https://archive.md/UoJkn)

https://decrypt.co/15730/shitcoin-wallet-is-a-scam-says-security-researcher ( https://archive.md/d6goZ )

albert chan · Jan 21, 2020

Hedge funds amass $3.3T cash hoard to start Roaring '20s

The record-setting year occurred despite net outflows of $13.6 billion in the fourth quarter.

www.foxbusiness.com

Hedge funds are beginning the new decade with more than $3.3 trillion in their coffers — a record high, thanks to the strongest performance in 10 years, according to new data.

“The hedge fund industry concluded a historic decade of growth, which began in the aftermath of the financial crisis and saw total capital double in size,” Kenneth J. Heinz, president of industry-tracking firm Hedge Fund Research, said in a statement on Tuesday.

RAY DALIO'S MOST PROMINENT FUND SUFFERS FIRST ANNUAL LOSS SINCE 2000

The new total represents an increase of $80 billion in the last three months of the year alone, HFR reported. The previous record — $3.24 trillion — was notched in mid-2019

Safir · Mar 31, 2020

PSA: if anyone is slurping Nassim Taleb's cum, here's a good reason not to.

Nassim Taleb Says 'White Swan' Coronavirus Pandemic Was Preventable

Nassim Taleb, New York University distinguished professor of risk engineering, says a "white swan" event like the coronavirus pandemic was preventable. He speaks during an interview with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker on "Bloomberg Markets: European Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

www.bloomberg.com

"It's a 'white swan' because it was 'preventable'." What an astoundingly useless rubric.

Mepsi Pax · Apr 3, 2020

Taleb's been kind of a fag lately, though I guess I can't technically argue with him because "black swan" is his idea, but I'd say this event qualifies as a black swan because we've already had several nasty viruses come out of China fairly recently and none of them caused these downstream effects. SARS/MERS and H1N1 killed lots of people and were (more or less) highly infectious, but we saw practically no economic effects and didn't have to institute such severe preventative measures. By his own definition (A black swan being something people don't expect to see despite it not ACKSHULLY being that uncommon) this ver. 3.1 Chinese Flu is just that - something people didn't expect to see although it's just a natural mutation of something everyone is familiar with.

crapstream · Oct 10, 2020

Lightning network node operators running LND versions prior to the Oct. 1 version 0.11 upgrade have been urged to upgrade immediately after a vulnerability was discovered affecting LND versions 0.10 and below.

The vulnerability was made public in an Oct. 9 announcement from Lightning engineer Conner Fromknecht, head of cryptographic engineering at Lightning Labs. Fromknecht said:

“While we have no reason to believe these vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild, we strongly urge the community to upgrade to lnd 0.11.0 or above ASAP,”

https://cointelegraph.com/news/lightning-network-vulnerability-discovered-upgrade-immediately

Comfyman · Oct 30, 2020

Sexy Potoo said:
Something Very Strange Is Going On With Bitcoin And BTC Google Searches
Tl;Dr :"BTC" google searches have suddenly surpassed "bitcoin" google searches by a huge margin
Bitcoin =blue, BTC = red
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Something Very Strange Is Going On With Bitcoin And BTC Google Searches

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices are well known to be closely tied to media and general public interest–though that could be changing...

www.forbes.com

ALL DA WIMMIN ARE SEARCHING FOR THAT BTC, CISSY BOI!

LoginRegister · Nov 15, 2020

KYC is slowly comming to blockchain.
Check out this article about a mining pool that has a tool to block transactions that are blacklisted, this leave the open door for the US government to block any transaction from any address they want, they are maybe testing this in this particular pool and soon force the rest to also blacklist whatever they want, so if you think BTC is safe and secure and cannot be confiscated then you are wrong, because it can be confiscated, yo will not be able to move your coins if the government doesnt want to, or you will need to mine a block by yourself (expensive), then you might think that Monero is a good option, just not really, do you really think that maybe they already infiltrate Monero dev team and force them to secretly add a backdoor to trace those transactions? same as tor exit nodes are honeypot for criminals?

https://news.bitcoin.com/a-new-bitcoin-mining-pool-claims-it-has-tools-to-censor-blockchain-transactions/

stares at error messages · Jan 21, 2021

Sexy Potoo said:
Bitcoin =blue, BTC = red

If you search BTC on Google you get the price in USD.

I'd guess someone is webscraping BTC on Google to get the price in USD which is causing this weird trend line.

OlgaOfKiev · Feb 18, 2021

Here are some recent articles related to NVIDIA GPUs and cryptocurrency mining.

Today, NVIDIA released a blog post where they announced a separate product line that focuses on cryptocurrency mining. Apparently, their RTX 3060 will feature drivers that will drop the efficiency of the graphics card being used to mine ETH by ~50%. Instead, they are offering miners the NVIDIA CMP (Cryptocurrency Miner Processor). Their reasoning behind this is to address the supply demand of their graphics cards.

There is a good write-up on Tom's Hardware about this.

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate, Unveils New 'Cryptocurrency Mining Processor' Line of GPUs

By Nathaniel Mott, Jarred Walton 2 hours ago
Gamers to the right, miners to the left.

(Image credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia today announced its new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) line of GPUs to "address the specific needs of Ethereum mining" and, hopefully, improve the availability of the best graphics cards in the GeForce product line in the process. The company also limited the mining performance of the soon-to-be-launched RTX 3060 cards to roughly 50% of the normal performance. It sounds like a good move, but there's a lot going on.

Cryptocurrency miners previously had to purchase graphics cards originally intended for PC gaming if they wanted to maximize their operation’s profitability. This can lead to—or exacerbate—GPU shortages whenever a particular coin’s value skyrockets. Right now that coin is Ethereum. CoinDesk's figures put the cryptocurrency's price at $281 in February 2020, but at time of writing it's priced at $1,920. The scramble to join this digital gold rush has worsened the GPU shortage caused by COVID-19.

Nvidia's solution? Give miners their own GPUs. The company said in today's announcement that the CMP line was developed to "help miners build the most efficient data centers while preserving GeForce RTX GPUs for gamers." The resulting Nvidia CMP HX "allows a fully open, airflow-optimized bracket and is configured to allow a greater number of GPUs to be controlled by one CPU." That airflow optimization was partly enabled by ditching unnecessary display ports.

Nvidia said the CMP line also features lower core voltages and frequencies to improve mining efficiency. The new GPUs will be sold through authorized resellers including "ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, Palit, and PC Partner." Those optimizations should be decent incentives for cryptocurrency miners to buy CMP products instead of their GeForce counterparts. The proverbial carrot, if you will. And the stick? Deliberately making gaming-focused GPUs worse at mining.

Nvidia explained in today's announcement: "RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent." The company didn't say whether or not it plans (we'll get to that in a moment), but Nvidia's latest RTX offerings are currently at the top of our GPU benchmarks hierarchy, and it would be nice if more of them were actually used to play games.

Model	30HX	40HX	50HX	90HX
Ethereum Hash Rate	26 MH/s	36 MH/s	45 MH/s	86 MH/s
Rated Power	125W	185W	250W	320W
Power Connectors	1 x 8-pin	1 x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Memory Size	6GB	8GB	10GB	10GB
Starting Availability	Q1	Q1	Q2	Q2

Is this really good news, or is this just Nvidia playing both sides? To be clear, these CMP cards are still the same exact silicon that goes into GeForce and Quadro graphics cards. They don't have video outputs, cooling should be improved (for large-scale data center mining operations), and they're better tuned for efficiency. But every single GPU sold as a CMP card means one less GPU sold as a graphics card. What's perhaps worse is that while miners can still use consumer cards for mining (maybe not the upcoming RTX 3060, depending on how well Nvidia's throttling works), gamers can't use these mining cards for gaming.

Nvidia does state that these GPUs "don't meet the specifications required of a GeForce GPU and, thus, don't impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers." Frankly, that doesn't mean much. What does Nvidia do with a GPU that normally can't be sold as an RTX 3090? They bin it as a 3080, and GA102 chips that can't meet the 3080 requirements can end up in a future 3070 (or maybe a 3070 Ti). The same goes for the rest of the line. Make no mistake: These are GPUs that could have gone into a graphics card. Maybe not a reference 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080, or 3090, but we've seen TU104 chips in RTX 2060 cards, so anything is possible.

Which brings up another big question: What specific GPUs are being used for CMP? The 90HX is almost certainly an Ampere GA102 chip, because it's probably the only one that can reach the 86MH/s target speed. The rest, though, who knows? Turing TU104, TU106, and TU116 GPUs can easily reach those performance figures, and this could be a way to clear out a bunch of older GPUs at premium prices. It could even be a "flavor of the month" approach where Nvidia uses a variety of GPUs that couldn't qualify for use in a GeForce card and sells them as a CMP.

These CMP cards also shouldn't have any use for the RT cores or maybe even Tensor cores in Turing and Ampere, which would be a good way of selling off otherwise 'dud' chips. Look at the 30HX, with 6GB of memory and a 125W TGP. That matches up almost perfectly with a GTX 1660 GDDR6 card.

That brings us to the relative performance and specs. Note that the 90HX lists an Ethereum hash rate of just 86MH/s and a 320W TGP. After a bit of tuning, an RTX 3080 can usually do 94MH/s at 250W or less, so these cards (at least out of the box) aren't any better. That's probably because Nvidia knows running GPUs at high fan speeds and temperatures for 24/7 use leads to component failures. It's why the data center and workstation lines are normally clocks far more conservatively than the consumer line.

It gets worse as you go down the line, though. 50HX only does 45MH/s at 250W — that basically matches the tuned performance of the RTX 2060 Super through RTX 2080 Super, with a TGP that's still twice as high as what we measured. It's also half the speed of an RTX 3080 while potentially still using the same GPU (10GB VRAM). Or maybe it's a TU102 that couldn't work with 11 memory channels, and its been binned with 10 channels. Either way, who's going to want this? 40HX at 36MH/s and 185W and 30HX at 26MH/s and 125W are equally questionable options.

Of course, we don't have pricing information yet. That's going to be a critical factor. Maybe this is just a way to more easily sell GPUs to miners at inflated prices. Or maybe it's a way to sell otherwise junk silicon to miners are reasonable prices (doubtful). Certainly, miners are paying exorbitant pricing on eBay right now. If the CMP cards cost more than graphics cards using the same GPU, they're not going to sell well.

The driver limiting of mining performance for the upcoming RTX 3060 sounds far more interesting. Nvidia probably can't implement the same restrictions on existing GPUs without facing a class action lawsuit (not to mention miners could just use older drivers), but making future GPUs less attractive to miners should help push them to other options. Maybe that's CMP, maybe it's AMD GPUs, or maybe it's custom ASICs.

Still, there's only a limited number of leading edge wafer starts available, and they're in high demand, so this isn't going to radically improve the situation with graphics card shortages any time soon. But maybe — hopefully! — it will be enough by the time Hopper rolls out in 2022/2023.