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Good. Maybe I can start shopping for graphics cards again.

Graphics cards haven't been relevant to bitcoin in a long time, unless you mean the ripple effect this might have on the price of other cryptos.

The graphics card I want retails for $700. It is getting more and more possible to find it at that price, but NEWEGG is still charging $1,000 for it.

So I think its a little premature to say that Graphics Cards unaffected by crypto.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/cryptocurrency-minin...

> So I think its a little premature to say that Graphics Cards unaffected by crypto.

The person you responded to said "graphics cards haven't been relevant to bitcoin" (not crypto)

Bitcoin isn't mined with GPUs any more. The GPU shortage is because of the ethereum hype which is strongly linked to bitcoin hype.

Most other cryptos are heavily linked to Bitcoin's price. If the Bitcoin bubble bursts, it's fairly safe to say miners are going to start dumping the mining equipment used for other coins, so yes, the ripple effect.

It’s funny because the ripple effect affects even the Cryptocurrency called Ripple that doesn’t and never used GPu mining.

GPU prices dropped 25% in March: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-amd-gpu-prices-down-25-in-march-...

The bitmain ethereum asic is probably a large factor: https://www.coindesk.com/bitmain-confirms-release-first-ever...

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