Gaming laptops powered by GeForce RTX 30 GPUs have become popular among Chinese Ethereum miners, reported by the BTCer blogger.
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Due to a shortage of discrete GPUs on the market, miners began assembling farms from laptops.
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Data: BTCer.
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One laptop with an RTX 3060 GPU in two hours capable of mining 0.00053 ETH ($0.92 at current prices).
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Data: Bilibili.
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Based on these estimates, a laptop priced at about $1,000 pays back in roughly three and a half months, calculated by Techarp.
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As of writing, the second cryptocurrency trades around $1,750.
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Earlier, Ethereum miners earned $798m. Forty percent of revenues came from transaction fees.
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Earlier ForkLog reported that a new gaming laptop with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 demonstrated decent Ethereum mining performance. The overclocked GPU reached 48.99 MH/s.
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