In February 2021, demand for graphics processing units on the online marketplace Avito rose 2.6-fold from the same period a year earlier, according to RIA Novosti, citing the company’s press service.<\/p>\n
Despite the hype, listings for sale of graphics cards increased by only 18%.<\/p>\n
Ready-made mining rigs saw demand rise 3.8-fold compared with February last year, while advertisements for their sale on the site grew by 65%.<\/p>\n
In early January 2021, amid Ethereum’s rapid price rise, its hash rate rose by 21%<\/a>, indicating renewed interest by ‘home’ miners in mining the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.<\/p>\n Compared with December, Avito analytics recorded a 52% increase in demand for graphics cards.<\/p>\n At the end of 2020, Yandex.Market also reported that visits to graphics card sale listings rose by nearly 70%.<\/p>\n The global market in this period faced a shortage of equipment \u2013 high-performance models disappeared from open sale, and the price of graphics cards increased by an average of $100<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier, ForkLog reported that miners from China, South Korea and Taiwan began massively buying gaming laptops<\/a> based on GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs. This occurred after Nvidia announced plans to limit the hash rate of desktop GPUs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full feed of news, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In February 2021, demand for graphics processing units among users of the Avito online marketplace rose by 2.6 times from a year earlier, according to RIA Novosti, citing the company’s press service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38618,"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-38617","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":"5","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617","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=38617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38619,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions\/38619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}