Hello steemians,
Today i would like to share with you my thoughts about how cryptocurrency mining affects us the gamers and people who studies for development and etc. Dont get me wrong. Cryptocurrency mining is indeed a very nice way to make some "easy" money, but does anyone thought what is the impact in our hobby which is hardware and gaming.
As you know people started to buy out all of the graphics card in order to mine Etherium. It is reason why all this cryptocurrency went really up. As a result the compoments became really expensive for a student like me to be able to own one. Every store and online shop stocks are empty or already sold out. The prices for the most component which is the Graphics card are ridiculously high. Even Ram has been affected because of the mining.
Right now is the worst time in the history of graphics cards to buy or upgrade this all-important gaming component. The impact is huge.Two of my friends are in need of upgrading their graphics card for their studies or playing their games and they cant because of it.
Why do we need the graphics card for ? For photoshop, Adobe aftereffects, for 3d unity, for development, literly for everything. Here is a very nice blog why do we need gpus.
I really hope for a solution to come really soon. As i said above i dont have any problem with the miners. This is what they want to do. This is a easy way to make more money. But why it has to affect us the studens, the gamers, the small developers who want to became better and better..?? It hurts me to watch photos in facebook or instagram posts from stores selling like 100 graphics card instantly because a miner got them for a better price.
Thank you for reading my post,
