Chinese crypto miners are buying gaming notebooks in bulk to mine Ethereum
Chinese crypto miners are buying gaming notebooks in bulk to mine Ethereum
Note: This article was first published on 8 Feb 2021.
Cryptocurrency is on the rise again. Ethereum, in particular, has seen its value rise over three times since November last year. At the time of writing, a single Ethereum is worth S$2,115.
The rise of cryptocurrency has led miners to scoop up mining hardware. A GPU is absolutely essential, and given the shortage of desktop GPU cards, these enterprising miners have resorted to gaming notebooks.
In particular, these miners are interested in notebooks featuring NVIDIA's latest GeForce RTX 30 series mobile GPUs.
According to reports, a notebook powered by a GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is capable of mining 0.00053ETH every two hours. At current rates, that's the equivalent of ~S$1.12. This means a S$3,000 notebook would pay itself off in about 223 days.
Source: BTCer @ Weibo via Videocardz