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Netizens recently installed demand certainly found a strange thing, mining craze finally stopped, the graphics card prices fell back to normal levels, how the price of the beginning of this year has returned to the highest level? An ordinary GTX 1060 6GB graphics card Actually want to 2500 yuan? What is the situation?
Originally able to dig with graphics card Ethereum ETH, ZEC and other virtual currency prices soared 30% in the past week, the rising price of virtual currency once again set off a mining boom, it is no wonder that video cards invariably prices.
View the Coinmarketcap website data, you will find ETH prices rose amazingly, in just one month, from less than 500 US dollars an ETH, up to now 1250 US dollars prices have more than doubled, but also continued to rise momentum.
1250 dollars converted into RMB is about 8100 yuan, the price is almost four times the eve of the Chinese government imposed a virtual currency ban, do you think you missed a few hundred million?
According to the data given by Spark Mine Pool, Now every 100MH / s calculated profit is 118 yuan, is profitable, it is no wonder that mining craze set off again.
If you take a look at AMD's RX 580, it is even more exaggerated, starting price of 2700 yuan, direct Sell all the light, one is not left.
When is the graphics card starting price increases? Check historical data at a glance.
The manufacturers started to adjust their pricing in mid-December. Most of them are directly at +300 yuan, almost coinciding with the time when ETH prices soared. You said that these cards are not for mining, and I myself do not believe it.
At that time, we also heard of what is the shortage of memory chips, electronic raw material prices led to graphics card prices, perhaps this is part of the reasons for price increases, but the main reason manufacturers are spotted mining demand for graphics and uplift prices.
But do not forget, the Chinese government introduced policies to deprive the virtual currency exchange of living space, trading in China is not very convenient, there is no safe and reliable trading platform, many retail investors have chosen to give up.
Therefore, this wave of mining craze is the main force in foreign countries, many foreign media coverage, Mining seems to rise overnight abroad, even MIT students also set up their own dormitories in the 'small mines', began digging some ASIC chips can not dig the virtual currency, such as ETH, ETC, ZEC, etc. has become a hot choice.
Not only domestic and foreign mining God card is also sold out of stock
Have to say, mining craze has hurt a wave of DIY market, seriously disrupted the normal graphics card price order, players want to start suffering between the price and out of stock.Naturally suitable for digging AMD graphics card, out of stock, up The price is already normalized.
When will the abnormal market end?
