Yeah, I'm actually kinda surprised at this one. As I mentioned in the other thread, with a desktop based machine, you just need one motherboard, CPU, RAM etc... and you can load it up with multiple cards, easily. With laptops, one is all you get, and you're going to have power delivery and thermal issues. The cheapest RTX3080 laptop I see at Dell is $2849.99? What's the ROI on that?
Depends on the 3080's config (could perform as bad as a desktop 3060 Ti depending on the configuration Dell goes with) so assuming equal mining performance to the 3060 Ti the ROI (excluding electricity costs, maintenance costs, time investment to procure all the machines, time to set them up, etc.) would be 456 days ($2850/$6.25 earned per day based on today's Ethereum price). Assuming the 3080 equals a desktop one, the ROI is 289 days ($2850/$9.88). So anywhere between 9.5 months to 15.5 months, assuming Ethereum keeps its price as it is today. Good ROI is in the <6 month range so this is quite bad. Though I doubt these people bought the laptops for $2850 per, they probably got a bulk purchase deal from the manufacturer.
I believe governments should ban this mining craze, as it's just a waste of energy while producing absolutely nothing.
I believe less government interference is preferable. As long as the appropriate taxes are paid when the crypto is cashed in I see no issue.
That argument can also be stretched for so many more topics (
cough stock market
cough). Something not producing anything does not mean it has to be outright banned.
Also, good luck with banning crypto. You might be able to prevent cashing out to a certain extent but crypto to crypto exchanges are not preventable and there are many cryptocurrencies which are "clean" in the sense that they're not mined. Some are even directly linked to fiat currency, like USDT.
And then there's this...
GPU mining causing power outages in Iran The country with cheap electricity suffers from the popularity of GPU mining, According to El Chapuzas Informatico, an investigation by Iranian authorities has revealed that recent power outages in Iran have been caused by the growing popularity of mining...
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That's the Iranian government's doing though. They're renting out electricity to chinese farmers
at the expense of their own citizens. Not that the Iranian government has really ever cared for their citizens... Anyhow, it's not the mining that's causing the power outages, it's the government allocating electricity to chinese mining operations for profit, at the expense of their citizens access to electricity. Yes, that results in mining 'stealing' power from Iranian citizens, but it's their own government allowing and doing it. Not the miners fault in that case (although they're douches for participating in the arrangement)
