The fever for Bitcoin, Ethereum or Zcash continues to rise, while NVIDIA increases the stock of graphics cards due to the shortage of NVIDIA graphics and some users are looking for NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti, because they yield more than they give more mining power than the GTX 1070.

Many of you may not have even heard of this, but in the 50s and 60s in the United States, there was a real gold rush due to a sudden rise in the price of this precious metal, which made many launch themselves in search of this metal. Well, right now we are in the Cryptocurrency Fever, where everyone has gone a bit crazy on the subject, buying equipment to mine as if there were no tomorrow and little specialization media pouring in, talking about Bitcoin , Ethereum, Zcash and whatever cryptocurrency gets ahead, without knowing what they are talking about.

AMD and NVIDIA have realized the vein they have in this market and yesterday it was announced that both work on exclusive graphics cards for mining, which will give great performance, will not have superfluous elements and will not be used to play, in addition, He commented that one aspect they would take great care of would be consumption. AMD RX 470, RX 480 and RX 580 graphics are impossible to find and since there is a worldwide shortage, those who sell them on Amazon or Ebay have put crazy prices of up to three times the starting price of these graphics cards.

Ethereum is best mined with AMD and Zcash with NVIDIA, although miners with AMD graphics can be rotated to mine Zcash, although it is not as efficient, but the problem is that miners with NVIDIA graphics to mine only Zcash cannot be rotated to mine Ethereum, because mining won't even face the wind. Until now, AMD was chosen because with NVIDIA it was not profitable due to the cost of the graphics, but now that both cryptocurrencies are above $ 250 in Poloniex, it is already profitable to mine Zcash with NVIDIA, which is causing another interesting phenomenon.

NVIDIA has increased the stock of its graphics cards, as have the manufacturers that work with the company, taking the stock they had in the reserve warehouse, as if there was no tomorrow, because they are being sold in large quantities. This is because miners, especially in Europe and the United States, which is where the Ethereum and Zcash miners are, change the graphics from AMD to NVIDIA. So much so, that Zcash has been updated, improving the support of the NVIDIA GTX 900 Series family, which has caused second-hand or new 980 Ti to be highly valued.

The GTX 980 Ti gives almost 500 soles, which is somewhat more than the GTX 1070, which gives about 450 soles, therefore mining experts are looking like crazy for the GTX 980 Ti in stores or on pages where they are sold from second hand. Currently the price remains more or less stable, but it is possible that on Monday of next week, the price of the GTX 980 Ti will already be through the roof due to the avalanche of demand in this field.

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To give you an idea, you can see in the image after the jump that the number of miners in Europe and the United States is growing, which has caused an increase in difficulty, going from three million difficulty. Some of you may have noticed the power peaks, which usually coincide when large companies are closed, taking advantage of the SysAdmin, to get a few coins with the systems of large companies, which have powerful central systems, where they usually put them for an hour to mine and then they stop, hence the peaks.