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Graphics cards have come down in price severely, but are still well above MSRP / RRP.

But BTC never was a big deal for graphics cards particularly. IIRC, Ethereum was the most profitable GPU coin. (Even if you were paid in BTC for mining through NiceHash or whatever, most miners would immediately sell for USD anyway to pay for electricity costs).

For my company I needed something with CUDA cores, got a 3070 Ti for $100 over MSRP. I could live with that.

Coming down, yes. Back to normal? Not until 2024 I bet.

you know how nvidia feels about using the RTX for commercial applications (e.g. deploying a server with rtx in a datacenter), right? :-)

Reminds me, I need to make sure my WinRAR licenses are all up-to-date.

"Bitcoin has died 447 times" [0]

It's not an easy thing to kill.

[0] https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/

cool website

Most BTC miners moved to ASIC based miners many years ago.

People today aren't mining BTC with mass market graphic cards, but ETH and other currencies.

The price of those other currencies seems to somehow always be directly related to Bitcoin, so you are right GPUs aren’t used, but the claim still stands.

You cant mine bitcoin with GPUs.

> Now that bitcoin is dying

this is so 2013