Re: Sounds like good news....
" e-coins use proof-of-work algorithms that aren't GPU-friendly"
Eh, no. More the other way around. The PoW coins are almost all set to use GPU/CPUs and not ASICs, and often have a hard fork planned if they do become mineable on an ASIC. The PoS coins are the anti-miner crowd, PoW pretty much requires miners.
While some in the crypto community don't like miners, some groups actively encourage them. It depends upon whom you wish to depend upon for your processing, and how distributed you would like it to be.
Even the ones aimed at being only viable on CPUs are able to be mined on a GPU. That's the biggest appeal of the Vega's, that they can crack 2k hash on monero.
I'm curious where el reg can get a 1080t for those prices.
As for the article, surely the way around this is to add the word "blockchain" to any process that you're running. Or add a low intensity mining process, so you're doing blockchain processing as well as whatever nVidia wants you to do one their super expensive GPU.
It's the same crap as when a "workstation" GPU costs five times the equivalent of a consumer grade one, despite being having the same innards.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
