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This is a cool side effect of GPU mining, this is all commodity hardware. In a year or less miners will need to upgrade their GPUs and will be selling their old GPUs. Gamers can then buy them up for cheap. With ASIC Bitcoin miners the hardware is useless once it becomes inefficient to mine on it.


It's going to be an interesting hiccup in bitcoin when we eventually have to migrate off of SHA256 and suddenly existing ASICs become irrelevant.




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