Thursday, November 29th 2018
ASUS Thinks It's a Good Idea to Mine Cryptocurrencies When Your GPU Is Idle, Partners with Quantumcloud
Maybe the guys at ASUS haven't noticed it, but this is probably the worst time to announce an effort to promote cryptocurrency mining. The crypto market has fallen about 80% since its peak in 2017, and this November has been an special tough month for crypto investors with Bitcoin going under $4,000 for a few days. Miners are running away and a lot of people think the bubble is finally exploding. Companies such as GIGABYTE are suffering the consequences, but ASUS seems to be quite sure that the situation isn't that bad.
They have partnered with blockchain technology provider Quantumcloud and they will encourage users to use their idle GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies. Yeah, that's right. There are no details on what crypto currencies will be mined with Quantumcloud's software, but at least ASUS is letting now those potential users that they "won't get rich quick, but you can earn some easy money with your idle GPUs". In fact there's a disclaimer telling they do not "guarantee that users of its software will make any earnings or profit" and ASUS adds that users "are responsible for considering their own usage costs". Maybe a year ago this could have been a thing, but the idea seems really uncool right now.
Source:
The Next Web
They have partnered with blockchain technology provider Quantumcloud and they will encourage users to use their idle GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies. Yeah, that's right. There are no details on what crypto currencies will be mined with Quantumcloud's software, but at least ASUS is letting now those potential users that they "won't get rich quick, but you can earn some easy money with your idle GPUs". In fact there's a disclaimer telling they do not "guarantee that users of its software will make any earnings or profit" and ASUS adds that users "are responsible for considering their own usage costs". Maybe a year ago this could have been a thing, but the idea seems really uncool right now.
36 Comments on ASUS Thinks It's a Good Idea to Mine Cryptocurrencies When Your GPU Is Idle, Partners with Quantumcloud
They missed that boat by a solid 2 years.
Not only the quality of their products went downhill, they are also partnering with an obscure "Cloud compute" company, who's really a front for ethereum pool.
Basically, Hiveon consolidates with sparkpool, Quantum cloud becomes a middle-man for payouts, and ASUS got some cash for mindlessly believing (or at least pretending) that this is some sort of "distributed cloud compute".
There is very little in return from mining you're better off in stocks or holding a job
Keep it up!
Bitcoin dead 326 times and counting... this time it's different...
99bitcoins.com/obituary-stats/
Even has death events filtered by year.
or do asus now conceed mining won't invalidate their card warranty
MSI is really the only contender left in my eyes, especially since their VRM cooling on budget mobos is always excellent. Like the MSI Gaming Plus $120 range -
I dont understand what im being told and i only assume its for nothing but to get money. I want to know if it goes to a cause or it does anything at all
Atleast with folding and WCG you are specifically told how ur power is being used, and you can choose