Crypto enthusiast installs mining rig in BMW's trunk "to annoy gamers"

Oooooooh, I feel sooo annoyed... :)

(why would be? Because he is suffering from Attention Seeking Syndrome, a.k.a. ***? His problem, not mine :) )
 
Why would gamers get angry at him? He's not at fault: It's Nvidia and AMD that are making a killing and have so far refused to at least ATTEMPT to control the situation by developing a bios that detects and kills heavy compute use outside of white listed applications.

Yes yes yes, I know it wouldn't work fail proof but they could spend some time trying to develop cards that ONLY work for gaming and not compute at all and let workstation and miners get the rest. Then they can just allocate whatever they want to miners. Hell they can even make it 80 or 90% of their stock of chips if they want to but to just pretend nothing is happening or that they have no control and no way of fixing it while quietly getting rich by clearing inventory of even 2060s they're bringing back for miners is just trusting the good faith of gamers a bit much.

Truth of the matter is that they're happy to be super profitable while scumbags push carbon emissions through the roof for a pointless fiat currency that's basically there mostly just to launder money from criminals anyway, dirty business in about as many angles as you can think of.
the days when crypto was only or mainly used for money laundering by criminals are gone.
https://news.bitcoin.com/blackrock-bitcoin-futures/
 
What a load of BS, you can clearly see the heavy gauge extension cord running inside the car, doubt any of that is actually powered from the car itself...

If he does take it out on the road none of it would be running, also while out on the road I can only hope he gets rear ended by a semi and one of those GPUs flies out of the back through that pass through decapitating the **** driving.
 
How is this supposed to annoy gamers? Are we supposed to care that someone's dumb enough to put video cards in the back of an electric BMW? This only tells me that this person is a consumerist fool who would himself be annoyed by something as childish as this.

People who have money to burn, brains in their heads and like sports cars don't buy BMWs, they buy GT-R's. So, this guy's a clueless noob with money (we all know at least one person like that) who enjoys trolling people but doesn't even know how to do that right.

One thing that I can laugh about is that years back I went to the Toronto Auto Show and there was an i8 on display. BMW was letting people sit in it so I thought "What the hell, I'll sit in it." and proceeded to hit my head on that stupid gullwing door getting in and out because the doors don't swing high enough. I remember saying "If I bought this car, I'd end up hating it!" and never looked at it again.

I wonder how many times that this pretentious fool has hit his head on the door. Just imagine it and we can all get a chuckle out of his dumbassery. :laughing:
 
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Beautiful!

Keep buying Nvidia and leave AMD for us..

mwahahahaha

I was gonna say I thought it was Radeon cards that had the upperhand in mining.
Not sure this will annoy gamers anyway, other miners perhaps, or people who play minecraft who got confused. But while I like the i8, its a Beamer, and thats just trash.
 
While reading this I was remembering a scene early in Breaking Bad where Walt encounters a d*bag and his BMW at a gas station...

edit: found it
While reading this I was remembering a scene early in Breaking Bad where Walt encounters a d*bag and his BMW at a gas station...

edit: found it
I was about ready to make my own comment about how I feel about crypto miners and them good for nothing scalpers that I so despise and then you showed that video, OH Boy! you just made my day, Thank you so very much.
 
You actually think this would work? You think they could actually do this with LESS backlash then what they are receiving now? Cause I'm thinking I want to both have my card and own it too. If Nvidia starts controlling what people do with their cards, you are talking a very slippery slope.

Yes and no. It will cause that but there's little else that can be done and to me at least, the rest of the choices are even worst.

Yes I think that pragmatically, it would actually work and would get people that purchase gaming specific hardware just gaming hardware.

You are correct in assuming this will lead into closing PC hardware very quickly even: There's nothing stopping Nvidia from just black listing things like games they don't want people to play or selling the same tech as the ultimate DRM: Nobody without a copy we say is white listed can play so much like consoles it becomes hardware level DRM protection.

But honestly the fact that we already only have 2 major vendors for PC GPU hardware and only 1 of them also for console hardware means that we've been moving into this territory for a while.

So the options as I view them are the following:

1) Do nothing (This is where we're at, but is not very sustainable to just bet on cryptos failing when they might not for too long)
2) Close everything down and accelerate into basically an Nvidia console environment and an AMD console environment but for PC (So just replace Sony and Microsoft with Nvidia and AMD)
3) Propping up a third vendor that cares about the things AMD claims to care but isn't stretched as thin with too many battle fronts as AMD is (Something has to give and this is, and will continue to be, Radeon division)

To me 3) is not feasible and has no chance in hell of happening. 1) Would be fine for me since I have little to no interest in AAA gaming but assuming one does, you have to bite the bullet and at least consider 2)
 
the days when crypto was only or mainly used for money laundering by criminals are gone.
https://news.bitcoin.com/blackrock-bitcoin-futures/

They're not gone: People still do business with tax havens for example because they have to and it's not explicitly illegal. This why money laundering it's still happening and nobody has declared war on countries that enable this to happen because there's "legitimate" uses and reasons for what they're doing.

Crypto can, and probably will, become just the digital Cayman Islands: Yes there's legitimate people putting legit money into it but that won't stop money laundering and if anything will make it even easier to disguise said money.
 
Yes, us gamers HATE you miners! I've been looking for video cards for the past 3 months for a couple different customer systems....the market SUCKS because of greedy miners!
 
Yes, us gamers HATE you miners! I've been looking for video cards for the past 3 months for a couple different customer systems....the market SUCKS because of greedy miners!
Yes, it's the miners, and not a crippled world economy aggravated further by an incompetent, corrupt, and criminal American federal government mismanaging it

Talk about missing the forest for the trees
 
Bmw drivers have no idea what that is, or that high beams shouldn't be on with oncoming traffic. I've yet to meet a single person who drives a bmw that also possess the base level abilities of common sense or human decency.
The nastiest thing in a Beamer is the douche behind the wheel.
 
Bmw drivers have no idea what that is, or that high beams shouldn't be on with oncoming traffic. I've yet to meet a single person who drives a bmw that also possess the base level abilities of common sense or human decency.
Wow.....you need to get out more...The depreciation for BMWs means you can get a used one for a fraction of what they originally cost....I got a 2011 M3 for about 19k (payments) I'm a pretty normal guy that happens to drive a BMW....lumping all BMW owners into some type of snob category is lame...I mean, I don't say that all Subaru/Nissan/Honda owners are all trailer trash do I?
 
Wow.....you need to get out more...The depreciation for BMWs means you can get a used one for a fraction of what they originally cost....I got a 2011 M3 for about 19k (payments) I'm a pretty normal guy that happens to drive a BMW....lumping all BMW owners into some type of snob category is lame...I mean, I don't say that all Subaru/Nissan/Honda owners are all trailer trash do I?

Bmw drivers have a completely deserved image, they didn't because a stereotype because it's a minority that are douchnozzels
 
I mean, we're the ones laughing at how he just threw away his money. In a year or two the devalue of those GPU's will just show even more how stupid he is. He's flaunting ignorance more than anything.
 
Rich people can do what they want with their money; this guy can go ahead and waste his money with this lol. There are way better ways to grow your net worth.
Someone once said that BMWs are Germany's equivalent to America's Ford. He needs a better case for that computer.
***** should have saved the money and bought a better car.
Another self entitled ***** in a bmw looking for attention.
He bought Nvidia cards for mining??? A typical BMW owner. Slightly more informed than Homer Simpson :)
For all you wonderful people who took pot-shots at the car (and I am one of you), here's something to make your day! :laughing:
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Wow.....you need to get out more...The depreciation for BMWs means you can get a used one for a fraction of what they originally cost....I got a 2011 M3 for about 19k (payments) I'm a pretty normal guy that happens to drive a BMW....lumping all BMW owners into some type of snob category is lame...I mean, I don't say that all Subaru/Nissan/Honda owners are all trailer trash do I?
Well, all I can say is that you're about to find out exactly why they depreciate so badly. People like you who buy ten year-old BMWs because you can't afford new ones (aka posers) always cry the hardest and loudest every time they get hit with the frequent four-figure repair bills. Overpriced money pits always depreciate quickly.

I wish you the best of luck but I just saw the price of a water pump for a 2011 M3.... OOOF! :laughing:
 
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