Neo Cyrus:

That leaves Amazon who only has stock of nVidia cards, no Vegas, and NewEgg who again don't have Vega.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/ https://www.bestbuy.ca/ http://www.canadacomputers.com/ https://www.pc-canada.com/ And it doesn't stop there. Please don't pretend Canada is lacking in online electronics stores. Amazon and newegg are definitely not the only ones around.

TheDeeGee:

Finally some good news.

Won't change anything, and anyone thinking that is good news is clearly showing how little they know about cryptocurrencies. When/if etherium becomes unmineable, other cryptocurrencies will fill the gap. In fact, they already have. For instance: It's already, with a GTX 1080 ti anyways, more profitable to mine 26 other coins then Etherium. And with a Vega56 there are 8 more profitable coins to mine. Now, you may say, 8 isn't a lot, not like Nvidia. Sure, but i didn't say the difference. In both of those scenarios, mining Etherium is around $4.50 in profit per day. Whereas, if you go to the top 3 coins, for either the GTX 1080 ti or Vega56, you're looking at around $7 per day in profits. So this idea that Ethereum going away from GPU mining will have any impact on GPU mining, you guys really need to get your heads out of your ass and actually know what you're talking about before you talk or make opinions about it. Just so everyone is aware, incase you think that maybe bitcoin, litecoin, bitcoin cash, and ethereum are the only cryptocurrencies out there (maybe i just listed more then you thought existed already): There are over 1300 different cryptocurrencies. Obviously, most are worthless, many have been abandoned (but still exist and most of the time can still be mined and change in value even if the developers have abandoned it) but not all has, and quite literally, any one of them, even if worthless now, could spike in value tomorrow, and cause another gold rush.

DW75:

Actually, NCIX is now bankrupt, but yes, we have quite a few other online stores.

Oh, is that the website he was talking about? Interesting, though that doesn't exactly say they will absolutely be gone. If i'm not mistaken, bankruptcy does not necessarily mean the end of a company. If they do though, i won't be surprised. At the very least, ncixus.com has had horrible, horrible customer service. I once ordered something from them, the warehouse they shipped it from was a city away from me, and it took 3 weeks to get to me. Their reasoning? "Sorry we don't have control over that, your product is there and has been the whole time, but we do not control when they ship it out" What i also find strange is, the US website: https://www.ncixus.com/ no longer works, but the Canadian website https://www.ncix.com/ Does, yet also i'm seeing they supposedly no longer take orders? If that's true i don't understand why their website is still up with prices and everything...

DW75:

Sadly, they continued listing items in November and December which were not even in stock, and many people lost their money. A large amount of customers who were unaware of the bankruptcy ended up ordering items which did not exist. That money was used to pay off some of the debt to the creditors. It is quite a bad situation for Netlink Computers. They are in debt for over 35 million dollars.

That's crazy.

Aura89:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/ https://www.bestbuy.ca/ http://www.canadacomputers.com/ https://www.pc-canada.com/

Best Buy is not really a PC shop here, they may or may not have some parts occasionally. CC LOL, look at their GPU prices, ever, not just now during this mining craze. Never heard of PC Canada, they don't appear to have a physical store, and Tiger Direct is dead nonsense, try assembling a PC from what they offer and see what happens. In fact, try it with any of those you listed. So no, they're not literally the only options, I obviously didn't mean it literally. They're the only semi-almost-sane options, or in many cases the only places you can get the parts you need.

gerardfraser:

A few more Canadian stores.

Great, go shop there, let me know how that goes. I'm sure Best Buy and Dell are going to sell me those motherboards, RAM, and CPU I need. Btw, a bunch of those are the same company. Such as Dell being... Dell. And many of those companies were NCIX and are dead now. Don't worry, I'm sure the ones which lead to 404s since they're companies that haven't existed for years will be more helpful, especially the Mac one. The others which don't have functional sites, nothing to worry about, buy some $900 GTX 1050s from them. Edit: I stand corrected. There may be viable shop out of that list that actually has stock of stuff as possibly sellable prices and ships.

Neo Cyrus:

Best Buy is not really a PC shop here, they may or may not have some parts occasionally.

I don't really disagree with that since it's really not a PC shop here either, they are generally too expensive, past MSRP, even when GPU mining/inflation of GPUs were not happening. That being said, technically, you can buy PC parts from them.

Aura89:

I don't really disagree with that since it's really not a PC shop here either, they are generally too expensive, past MSRP, even when GPU mining/inflation of GPUs were not happening. That being said, technically, you can buy PC parts from them.

I'm aware. But I'm obviously talking about legit computer shops you can buy the parts you need from. The only computer related thing in my life I've bought from Best Buy is a keyboard. And it wasn't even until recently that they started bringing in random video cards I looked through the giant list the guy posted, and the ones which aren't 404s or dead companies are dubious at best with useless inventories and/or pricing. Canada Computers is semi-viable assuming you buy your GPU elsewhere. But it will come at a premium cost, especially since they don't match anyone but NCIX/Direct Canada/Hundred other names all the same company/ and they're dead. Memory Express seems possibly viable as well, I've only seen bad prices, but it's something. So there's that I guess, no one's heard of them, they obviously have no stores here, but hey if they actually sell components that's something. Thanks for the list... I think?

Neo Cyrus:

I'm aware. But I'm ob. viously talking about legit computer shops you can buy the parts you need from. The only computer related thing in my life I've bought from Best Buy is a keyboard. And it wasn't even until recently that they started bringing in random video cards I looked through the giant list the guy posted, and the ones which aren't 404s or dead companies are dubious at best with useless inventories and/or pricing. Canada Computers is semi-viable assuming you buy your GPU elsewhere. But it will come at a premium cost, especially since they don't match anyone but NCIX/Direct Canada/Hundred other names all the same company/ and they're dead. Memory Express seems possibly viable as well, I've only seen bad prices, but it's something. So there's that I guess, no one's heard of them, they obviously have no stores here, but hey if they actually sell components that's something. Thanks for the list... I think?

Yeah i'm there with you on that list, i don't understand it, only because...well...where did the list come from? every place i mentioned before were ones i had actually gone to and made sure were actually still alive... My only point on what i personally had posted was the fact that i have heard from many canadian friends that there are no places for them to buy electronics from other then amazon and newegg, and that has always bugged me when that is said simply because i know that is untrue. The fact that you guys are, in general, overpriced, is an issue. It's an issue in every place it is done, specifically, if there is no reason for it, such as import costs and whatnot to drive up the cost.

Fox2232:

Since cryptos do not have any real property, they have only "desire" value.

AKA, USD. And quite frankly, aside from some computer components, gold as well. Gold may be physical, but its price is purely based off of desire value. But USD (and many other currencies) are not based off of gold, or anything, for that matter. The paper money is worthless by itself, the coins are borderline worthless by themselves other then scrap value. Overall, money itself does not have any value, it only has a desire value. As to the rest of your comments, i would say you are mostly correct if it were just like the previous times bitcoin rose in value. Bitcoin has crashed, what, 3 times? Those previous times, no much else had any value or interest at all. It's not just bitcoin this time. It would require every single cryptocurrency to crash and burn for what you're saying will happen, happen. And if bitcoin crashes, i'm sure it'll take some with it, but all? We've already seen in the recent, relative crash where bitcoin went from 20K to around 13K, that affected a lot of coins, but not all. Decred, as an example, is at an all time high and continues to increase. Siacoin, another example, is skyrocketing in value. Those are only two coins, what about the other 1300+? I'm not saying what you're saying "won't" happen, the problem is, there's no point trying to predict a future you can't predict. There's no point for you saying it'll end, and there's no point for me saying it definitely won't. Put simply, no one knows what will or won't happen. If they did, specifically the nay sayers, bitcoin would have crashed last march, never gone past 1K, died in 2011, etc. etc. etc. It's completely pointless to say one way or another what will or won't happen.

As ive pointed out before https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-1070-FTW-GAMING-ACX-3-0-8-GB-GDDR5-VR-Ready-Graphics-Card/253003974243?epid=2255530973&hash=item3ae8364663:g:lT4AAOSwXetZSo75 Lol, i paid £360 for mine back in May 2017....less than a month old and waranty intact

Fox2232:

What Bank needs to control volume of "currency" when they can have most of profit coming from transactions? That's what video is about. Bitcoin no longer works as designed. It should have scaled up its ability to deliver transactions. Instead hijackers prevented this and "made" separate transaction network. Crypto currencies being hijacked left and right. While main concern is inflated external value by greed. Secondary concern is functionality, which may not deliver intended service. And there is that another issue not shown properly even in that video. Cost of opening and closing channel. And issue that you want to have money floating in channel (not doing anything) in advance. Having channel with $2000 limit open freezes that value for you. How much value will turn into construction blocks for transfer infrastructure of such network? 5~20%?

It's why Bitcoin cash exists 8MB block size an repels everything blockstream is attempting to do aka segwit/lightning network nodes.

How long before Bitcoin cash overtakes bitcoin core as number one coin though?

Remember when bitcoin launched back in 2009 not everyone's internet was that great, so going beyond 1MB limit wasn't really feasible. My understanding is blocksize remained low so to keep storage and bandwidth requirements lower until infrastructure was more robust.