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Hi, guys. I know nothing about bitcoin. But I do want to know, why do they have so many Graphics cards? They are making me jealous. I didn’t know you need good graphics for mining.

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They use ASICs for bitcoin, and recently moved to ASICs for other currencies because they are more efficient than GPUs now, so most of them are actually selling all their GPU based rigs.

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There’s no point getting into bc mining now, it’s too expensive to buy the hardware and it’s nowhere near as profitable as it once was

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BITCOIN Miners don't use GPU's, they haven't used GPU's for many many years, GPU mining is limited to ALT Coins that haven't bee over run by ASIC devices, which is an ever shrinking market it feels like.

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