Also, the DAO hack was as much a bug in Solidity as it was anything else.
Red Squirrel said:Of course trying to speculate stuff like that is pretty much a gamble. Not any different than the stock market.
Interesting. I didn't know that.
DAO was not blockchain problem, it was smart contract being done by ppl that know nothing.
It is tempting, the issue with ASICs is if it's anything like the bitcoin ones they are probably super hard to get ahold of. I'll have to look into them further. Probably expensive though.
The issue with ASICs is that it runs one algorithm, so if you can't mine that then there goes your ROI. Also once its obsolete it basically becomes worthless. Well, maybe you can salvage components for scrap?
Also the January hard fork(Constantinople) will reduce block rewards to 2/3rds of what it is right now.
More noise about PoS in 2019:
https://bitcoinist.com/ethereum-pos-blockchain-cut-energy/
I share the skepticism of others who are actually working on PoS. I would be thrilled if they could get sharding working in 2019. Not gonna hold my breath, though.
There's no way we'll see PoS/Sharding in 2019.
I don't know about that, but I imagine your 570 card ran a whole lot cooler under load than the Radeon 7 does.Aye! Too bad they're $700!
I just "lost" another RX card, a 570, or maybe a PCI-E slot (would be a bummer, just upgraded to this mobo a month ago).
A little annoyed at that, $300 and it's less than two years old. No fan dust build-up or noise or whine or any sort of indication that that card might be going. Now, it's not even detected at all in Device Manager.
Does 24/7 mining kill RX cards in less than two years? It was an MSI Gaming X model.
As long as the temperature is kept low, 24/7 mining is actually easier on a card (aside from the fans) than the intermittent loads and fluctuating temperatures of just being a gaming card. Fans are the only thing mining actually wears out faster unless you're mining with a major OC and sky high temps.Aye! Too bad they're $700!
I just "lost" another RX card, a 570, or maybe a PCI-E slot (would be a bummer, just upgraded to this mobo a month ago).
A little annoyed at that, $300 and it's less than two years old. No fan dust build-up or noise or whine or any sort of indication that that card might be going. Now, it's not even detected at all in Device Manager.
Does 24/7 mining kill RX cards in less than two years? It was an MSI Gaming X model.