Yeah, but don't sell crippled shovels.

There are more than enough people out there that want to just play games or do research. Miners are only making nvidia look worse. Their core demographic is getting disenchanted because what good is a great cheap graphic card, if you can never buy one.

There are more purchasers than cards available, so they are intentionally limiting purchases by miners with this method in preference to gamers. They don't want to sell their shovels to miners right now.

All the gold rushers buy all your shovels, and now gardeners can't get shovels to tend to their gardens.