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Serious miners are buying Antminers, not video cards.



Antminers are for mining Bitcoin, GPUs are mostly used for Ethereum.


https://www.coindesk.com/bitmain-antminer-e9-asic-ethereum-m...

ethereum is asic-resistant, not asic-proof. It doesn't mean you can't make ASICs, just that ASICs are <10x as efficient as an equivalent-node GPU, vs millions of times more efficient for bitcoin/etc.




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