Looks like the crypto collapse has begun

[Mister E. Meat]

I can anecdotally say that the Microcenter near me has had AMD cards in stock pretty continuously and no Nvidia. At the same time, the prices on the AMD cards are way out of whack with their value to me, with 6700XT hovering around $1K, 6800XT around $1300 and 6900XT between 2-3K in general, although apparently I can go in the store and pick up an Asrock 6900 XT for $1650.

 

[Mister E. Meat]

A bit like saying Nvidia isn't competitive because it doesn't have QuickSync. You can do better than that.

What, did you see NVENC and then just stop reading?

When a game I play regularly (2-7 days a week) is broken for over eight months, but a driver from April works on older hardware, that tells me AMD still can't do DX11 properly and never intends to.

All AMD had to do was deliver a competitive experience (they didn't) at an equivalent or lower price (their AIBs aren't). Why would I use or recommend a broken card that's more expensive than its competition, even when its competition is harder to get?

Which game was broken for 8 months in the latest driver? And you could just roll-back to an older driver to get the game to work? Annoying but could be a specific hardware/game setting issue kind of thing?

I like that AMD is open sourcing its Linux drivers and I thought was doing a better job on its software these days.

I think it was Destiny 2. And yes, you could roll back to earlier drivers but of course you lost out on any improvements other than D2 being busted. And Bungie does seem to acknowledge that [some|all] of the blame should fall on them here about 3/4th the way down the page..

 

[Mister E. Meat]

I think it's a fallacy to say that since there's a limited number of bitcoins that it can't be inflationary. There are already 100 million satoshis to a bitcoin and that's not counting the ability in the future to modify or fork it to divide a single bitcoin into billions or trillions of pieces. That's essentially no different than the Fed printing more cash.

 

[Mister E. Meat]

Bitcoin actually is inflation-proof, because there is a limited number of bitcoins in existence and no more can ever be minted. Once you hit 21 million, that's it. That doesn't mean it has any inherent value as it isn't backed by anything at all, just that external to other factors, value won't inflate due to increased supply.

It can also inflate by decreased demand. See: LUNA.

I think it's a fallacy to say that since there's a limited number of bitcoins that it can't be inflationary. There are already 100 million satoshis to a bitcoin and that's not counting the ability in the future to modify or fork it to divide a single bitcoin into billions or trillions of pieces. That's essentially no different than the Fed printing more cash.

Not really. The Fed prints more dollars. It doesn't print micro-pennies.

They don't print micro pennies because they can print dollars. Also whole pennies are already essentially worthless. What I'm saying is that you have a currency that on the face of it is claimed to be deflationary but the other side of it is that you've already also built in a way to divide it far more than any other currency on Earth. That's going to cause inflationary pressure too, just like printing more dollars does. Whether it offsets the deflationary effect of only having a limited number of bitcoin remains to be seen.

 

[Mister E. Meat]

It's funny to see Nvidia making the same mistakes that AMD did during the last crypto surge.