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[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Neither did many of the miners. There was pretty famously a near-universal shortage of GPUs for several years because crypto miners were buying so many cards - online, direct from the manufacturer, even big box stores; they drained them all. Most of those would be indistinguishable from a normal purchase (a lot of miners only bought one or two cards; there were just a lot of crypto bros looking to get rich).

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago

Except nivdia was prioritizing crypto sales

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76468/cant-buy-new-ampere-gpu-thats-because-nvidia-sold-them-to-miners/index.html

Sure a number were sold through gaming distribution handles, but that was more scalpers than crypto I suspect.

All the crypto farms were buying in bulk

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Stores do. Nvidia likely thought it wasn't going to get looked at.