This breakthrough ushered in a new era of mining – the hrate of the network after the transition from CPU to GPU increased by about 130,000%.
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Exactly 16 years ago Bitcoin-mining first switched to video cards - the developer showed that GPU consider hashes much more efficient than conventional processors
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