rjohnson11
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180313PD204.html
 
Nvidia has recently started placing restrictions on its downstream graphics card partners, forbiding them to publicly promote cryptocurrency mining activities or actively sell its consumer graphics cards to miners, the sources said. Nvidia and AMD have both been decelerating the developments of their new GPU architectures and prolonging their existing GPU platforms' lifecycle, the sources said. What that means is there will probably be more time before the launch of the next gen video card. Most sources peg the next gen NVIDIA launch in June/July or maybe later.

Brad_Hawthorne
I'm weary of anything to do with cryptocurrency. When you have random people without any credibility setting all the rules of the game, you have way too many ways to become a total fool in all of this. So many people are wholly incapable of seeing the forest through the trees. The true winners are the creators of the game, not those playing it. Learn a bit from vegas people. 

TheGutSteR
Here you go folks looks like uncle Sam has already started laying the smack down. 
 
Can't link the article yet, but a miner got smacked with $50k in taxes due and his response "I didn't know and I think I may have ruined my life."
 
It was posted by the guardian. Investors in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies face hefty tax bills
 
 

kram36

TheGutSteR
Here you go folks looks like uncle Sam has already started laying the smack down. 
 
Can't link the article yet, but a miner got smacked with $50k in taxes due and his response "I didn't know and I think I may have ruined my life."
 
It was posted by the guardian. Investors in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies face hefty tax bills
 
 

Give me a break. Do you know how much money a person would have to earn in order to owe $50k in taxes? If the quoted individual in your post ruined his life, he ruined it with a ton of money.

modgirl
All nVidia and AMD have to do is have the bios for their cards not allow mining.  Problem solved.  Miners will have to use ACIS mining machines
to mine.  But you won't see them doing that, so until they do everything else is just talk from them.  I read where nVida had actually enhanced
their bios for miners to compete with AMD. Anyone who believes that nVidia and AMD don't love this position that they find themselves in are
fooling themselves.  That goes for all their boards partners too, EVGA I am looking at you here.

modgirl

kram36

modgirl
All nVidia and AMD have to do is have the bios for their cards not allow mining.  Problem solved.  Miners will have to use ACIS mining machines
to mine.  But you won't see them doing that, so until they do everything else is just talk from them.  I read where nVida had actually enhanced
their bios for miners to compete with AMD. Anyone who believes that nVidia and AMD don't love this position that they find themselves in are
fooling themselves.  That goes for all their boards partners too, EVGA I am looking at you here.

I don't understand why you think you deserve these card's and a miner does not? Also, not all crytocurrencies can be mined on a ASIC system. There are cryptocurrecies that do not want ASIC systems used for mining their coins. Do you really know what mining is and what they are actually doing?

I understand perfectly what mining cryocurrency is, a ponzi scheme or a zero sum game.  What they are doing is trying to get rich quick or make money fast and don't care who or what it hurts or takes from others.  Sorry no sale here. 

modgirl

kram36

modgirl

kram36

modgirl
All nVidia and AMD have to do is have the bios for their cards not allow mining.  Problem solved.  Miners will have to use ACIS mining machines
to mine.  But you won't see them doing that, so until they do everything else is just talk from them.  I read where nVida had actually enhanced
their bios for miners to compete with AMD. Anyone who believes that nVidia and AMD don't love this position that they find themselves in are
fooling themselves.  That goes for all their boards partners too, EVGA I am looking at you here.

I don't understand why you think you deserve these card's and a miner does not? Also, not all crytocurrencies can be mined on a ASIC system. There are cryptocurrecies that do not want ASIC systems used for mining their coins. Do you really know what mining is and what they are actually doing?

I understand perfectly what mining cryocurrency is, a ponzi scheme or a zero sum game.  What they are doing is trying to get rich quick or make money fast and don't care who or what it hurts or takes from others.  Sorry no sale here. 

You are so sadly misinformed.

Sadly I am not, as a software engineer and an economist I have studied this issue inside and out.  The technology block chain is very promising, but it is being used for basically energy wasting garbage at this point.  As someone who has lived more than half a century I have seen booms and busts as well and people get hurt.  If you are mining don't forget you are gambling, you have no control over the game and the rules change constantly.

modgirl

kram36

modgirl

kram36

modgirl
All nVidia and AMD have to do is have the bios for their cards not allow mining.  Problem solved.  Miners will have to use ACIS mining machines
to mine.  But you won't see them doing that, so until they do everything else is just talk from them.  I read where nVida had actually enhanced
their bios for miners to compete with AMD. Anyone who believes that nVidia and AMD don't love this position that they find themselves in are
fooling themselves.  That goes for all their boards partners too, EVGA I am looking at you here.

I don't understand why you think you deserve these card's and a miner does not? Also, not all crytocurrencies can be mined on a ASIC system. There are cryptocurrecies that do not want ASIC systems used for mining their coins. Do you really know what mining is and what they are actually doing?

I understand perfectly what mining cryocurrency is, a ponzi scheme or a zero sum game.  What they are doing is trying to get rich quick or make money fast and don't care who or what it hurts or takes from others.  Sorry no sale here. 

You are so sadly misinformed.

Sadly I am not, as a software engineer and an economist I have studied this issue inside and out.  The technology block chain is very promising, but it is being used for basically energy wasting garbage at this point.  As someone who has lived more than half a century I have seen booms and busts as well and people get hurt.  If you are mining don't forget you are gambling, you have no control over the game and the rules change constantly.

lehpron
If nVidia wants to properly address mining, the only surefire way to manage the ups and downs is come up with a hyper-efficient product with longevity such that there is no point in using every generation of their graphics cards. Simply put, nVidia needs to develop an ASIC-type of device that uses tweaked versions of their hardware.

QuintLeo

Brad_Hawthorne

Actually, if you want to truly deal with mining, lock down CUDA and GPGPU to Quadro only. People would be up in arms, but it would solve the consumer gaming issue in haste.

CAN'T BE DONE - for the same reasons that you can't just "mod the BIOS to disable mining".
You have to delete the ability of the card to do computations ENTIRELY - at which point it turns into a gaming card with NO performance and nobody wants it at all.
 
The TRUE cure is for Nvidia to have not ramped down Pascal production TOO BLOODY MANY MONTHS AHEAD OF TIME - or for the ASIC miner makers to branch out more (Bitmain in particular has brought out miners for a BUNCH of algorithms in the last few months, but apparently they don't think they can create an ETH ASIC miner that is much if any better than GPUs can already do because of the HUGE memory requirements to mine ETH at all - which wouldn't help the Nvidia shortage anyway to a noticeable degree).