The Ethereum merge is done • Hacker News Board

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by teruakohatu » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:03 AM UTC

dereg wrote: post #8

I’m really curious what the GPU miners are going to be doing with their cards. Today may be as big a moment for gamers as it is for ETH devs.

Selling them?

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:04 AM UTC

archerx wrote: post #9

dereg wrote: post #8

I’m really curious what the GPU miners are going to be doing with their cards. Today may be as big a moment for gamers as it is for ETH devs.

Mine other coins.

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Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by neotrope » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:05 AM UTC

Merge is confirmed. "It went as well as it could". It eliminated 0.2% of global energy usage (bitcoin at 0.5%)

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by awestroke » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:05 AM UTC

archerx wrote: post #9

dereg wrote: post #8

I’m really curious what the GPU miners are going to be doing with their cards. Today may be as big a moment for gamers as it is for ETH devs.

Mine other coins.

Which ones? BTC is only mined on ASICs, other top coins are POS.

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by scambier » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:05 AM UTC

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #6

It worked. And it reduces the world's energy bill by 0.5%: https://twitter.com/JonathanBeuys/status/1570305323629527046 I feel a great disturbance in the force. As if a million miners cried out all at once and then were suddenly silenced.

Wait, the Ethereum blockchain alone was consuming 0.5% of the world's total energy?

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by ews » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:06 AM UTC

neotrope wrote: post #13

Merge is confirmed. "It went as well as it could". It eliminated 0.2% of global energy usage (bitcoin at 0.5%)

According to the call, I think it was 0.2% of global energy usage.

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by michaelwww » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:07 AM UTC

michaelwww wrote: post #3

These guys seem to think so: Ethereum Mainnet Merge Viewing Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-jYgI0QVI

Sep 14, 2022 at 11:43 p.m. PDT

Updated Sep 15, 2022 at 12:01 a.m. PDT

The Ethereum Merge Is Done, Opening a New Era for the Second-Biggest Blockchain

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/09/15/the-ethereum-merge-...

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by rvz » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:08 AM UTC

Good. The merge worked and they are not burning up the planet.

Now when are those Deep Learning systems in these data centers going to stop incinerating the planet with their useless deep learning models that not only are broken but require constant retraining and wasteful CO2 energy usage for years without any efficient alternatives?

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by bhaak » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:08 AM UTC

archerx wrote: post #9

dereg wrote: post #8

I’m really curious what the GPU miners are going to be doing with their cards. Today may be as big a moment for gamers as it is for ETH devs.

Mine other coins.

Ethereum had about 80-90% of the whole hashrate of GPU mineable coins. The next biggest one was ETC with about 5% of the hashrate of Ethereum.

They can't go all to other coins. It won't be profitable.

Re: The Ethereum merge is done

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Post by Barrin92 » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:09 AM UTC

scambier wrote: post #15

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #6

It worked. And it reduces the world's energy bill by 0.5%: https://twitter.com/JonathanBeuys/status/1570305323629527046 I feel a great disturbance in the force. As if a million miners cried out all at once and then were suddenly silenced.

Wait, the Ethereum blockchain alone was consuming 0.5% of the world's total energy?

usual comparison was that the energy consumption is comparable to nations like the Netherlands or Finland, so seems about right.