{"id":35033,"date":"2021-01-20T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35033"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:25:14","slug":"russian-demand-for-gpus-used-for-mining-rose-70-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-demand-for-gpus-used-for-mining-rose-70-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian demand for GPUs used for mining rose 70% in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yandex.Market specialists recorded a rise in demand for GPUs used for mining cryptocurrencies in Russia. According to their data, at the start of December the number of clicks on listings for their sale rose by almost 70%, writes<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/1prime.ru\/cripta\/20210120\/832847364.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab\u041f\u0440\u0430\u0439\u043c\u00bb<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Demand remained elevated throughout December. Russians were interested in GPUs 1.5 times more often than in December 2019. The peak came at the start of the month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On average in 2020, Russians searched for GPUs costing around 25 thousand rubles, but from mid-December this figure rose to over 50 thousand rubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yandex.Market noted that the drivers of December&#8217;s hype are &#8220;another cryptocurrency boom&#8221;, the release of new RTX 30XX-series production chips, which appeal not only to gamers but also to miners, and market shortages.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDue to the pandemic, some productions are still not operating at full capacity, which provokes a shortage, and it is likely to last at least until June,\u201d said Kirill Rodin, a representative of Yandex.Market.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, the further situation depends on &#8220;the state of the cryptocurrency market and how quickly manufacturers can restore their capacities&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier media, citing experts, said that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-rise-in-cryptocurrencies-has-led-to-gpu-shortages-that-are-set-to-persist-until-mid-2021\"> the rise in cryptocurrencies led to a shortage of video cards <\/a>, which will last until mid-2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yandex.Market specialists recorded a rise in demand for GPUs used for mining cryptocurrencies in Russia. According to their data, at the start of December the number of clicks on listings for their sale rose by almost 70%, Prime writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,27],"class_list":["post-35033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35035,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35033\/revisions\/35035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}