Study: in the first quarter 2021 miners bought back 25% video cards – Bits Media

The mining frenzy continues - according to Q1 data from Jon Peddle Research 2021 miners bought back more than 700 000 video cards, which is a quarter of the total supply.

To assess purchases of video cards by miners, analysts at Jon Peddle Research used the so-called "Attaching factor", which shows the ratio of the number of video cards sold to the number of other components. truth, Analysts emphasized, that statistics do not take into account miners, bought a full -fledged system. Besides, The model is less accurate, than in 2017 year due to the world's shortage of semiconductors.

Nonetheless, graphs are quite similar to the situation, I am acquired in 2017 and 2018 years. Then the miners also bought many video cards, And after a decrease in the cryptocurrency market, a surge in sales of devices in the secondary market was recorded, which is also reflected on the graphics. According to analysts, The cost of video accelerators sold to miners for the first quarter 2021 The year was about $500 million.

Note, that manufacturers of video accelerators are trying to fight a shortage of video cards, arising from the miners. So, NVIDIA company began the supply of devices with a reduced hash during mining. At the same time, she launched special models called CMP, intended specifically for miners.