Cryptomining angers me on a deep level far more than the nascent attempts of Nvidia to segment it. I think they're doing an incompetent job of diminishing the value of it, but at least they're making an effort to do so.
Cryptominers are a far greater threat to general purpose computing than Nvidia. They ought to be compelled by law to purchase carbon credits for their mining, to offset the environmental destruction their petty "get rich quick" efforts have inflicted on the planet, enforced through Coinbase et al. and with noncompliant (offshore) exchange/wash platforms blocked and their users prosecuted through national laws and international agreements. Cryptominers and the malware they've created makes a very strong argument for walled gardens with enforcement and review of applications, simply because the vast majority of PC users are worse than useless at preventing misuse of general purpose Windows.
I also think this proves Apple right on integrating the GPU on-die with the CPU, and not selling the CPU standalone at all, because Apple — unlike Nvidia and AMD — is having no such trouble with miners on their general computing platform. This issue is for whatever reason restricted to DIY PCs, and cryptomining will be the end of DIY PCs if this keeps up.
(Perhaps you meant "DIY computing" rather than "general purpose computing"? I definitely see Nvidia's steps as interfering in the build-your-own computing market, but if it keeps the DIY computing market from dying off in favor of Apple, isn't that a desirable outcome?)
Cryptominers are a far greater threat to general purpose computing than Nvidia. They ought to be compelled by law to purchase carbon credits for their mining, to offset the environmental destruction their petty "get rich quick" efforts have inflicted on the planet, enforced through Coinbase et al. and with noncompliant (offshore) exchange/wash platforms blocked and their users prosecuted through national laws and international agreements. Cryptominers and the malware they've created makes a very strong argument for walled gardens with enforcement and review of applications, simply because the vast majority of PC users are worse than useless at preventing misuse of general purpose Windows.
I also think this proves Apple right on integrating the GPU on-die with the CPU, and not selling the CPU standalone at all, because Apple — unlike Nvidia and AMD — is having no such trouble with miners on their general computing platform. This issue is for whatever reason restricted to DIY PCs, and cryptomining will be the end of DIY PCs if this keeps up.
(Perhaps you meant "DIY computing" rather than "general purpose computing"? I definitely see Nvidia's steps as interfering in the build-your-own computing market, but if it keeps the DIY computing market from dying off in favor of Apple, isn't that a desirable outcome?)