On the road to scarcity - miners take on gaming laptops

Chinese miners began to massively buy new gaming laptops with GeForce RTX 3000 series video cards. It is noteworthy that miners began to reveal the details of their "inventions. Recently, a Chinese blogger showed how easy it is to mine even using a gaming laptop with an RTX 3060 graphics card. In two hours in cafe he received 0.00053 ETH or about 89 cents

Not surprisingly, against the background of a noticeable shortage of video cards, it has become extremely difficult for ordinary gamers to assemble computers, but the miners themselves have to save money.

The price of Ethereum has tripled since November, and now it is profitable to mine even this way.

Chinese miners most often prefer to buy video cards directly from factories with a surcharge of about 30% in excess of what any distributor offered and without a guarantee, but now another method is gaining popularity.

Despite the fact that the performance of mobile RTX 3000 graphics cards is significantly inferior to desktop counterparts, some gaming laptops equipped with new GPUs from NVIDIA are cheaper than desktop graphics cards. Therefore, even with a lack of computing power, mining on such farms remains profitable.

The rise in the cost of Ethereum has led to the fact that mining has become profitable even on expensive gaming laptops with RTX 3070. Photos of such farms have already appeared on the network. At the same time, NVIDIA has not yet intervened in these processes. It is likely that soon there will be many gaming laptops on the secondary market that have worked their way in mining.

Note that NVIDIA announced the release of the GeForce RTX 3000 mobile video cards a month ago. The first laptops with the new graphics core are already hitting store shelves around the world. If the situation does not change, soon we should expect not only an increase in prices for gaming laptops, but also a shortage on the shelves.