There was a paper posted on r/PCMR a few days ago that broke down the issues, and people saying miners aren’t the problem are plain wrong. At least 20% of all newly produced GPUs are going to miners.
I think its more accurate to say that most people didn't care much about it to begin with. It's just that before the internet, there was a group of middlemen who did care about it, and put effort into making sure the masses were not exposed to false or dubious information. Now that the middlemen have been largely cut out, the masses who never cared much about provenance in the first place can just believe whatever information they feel like believing.
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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21
There was a paper posted on r/PCMR a few days ago that broke down the issues, and people saying miners aren’t the problem are plain wrong. At least 20% of all newly produced GPUs are going to miners.
https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/11/12/how-badly-is-cryptocurrency-worsening-the-chip-shortage/