That its really hard to work a hardware company when a digital hypecoins affect the value of your product.
It's really not nvidia's fault. They're in a really difficult position here to try and absorb all this new business space without stretching too thin or using too much velocity.
But in terms of processing graphics, the hardware is great. Using gpus for mining digital money hurts people using gpus for graphics, which was sorta the point in the first place. Maybe not now, but it used to be.
I don't mean to make the argument that graphics are more important than digital money, but it's like the Bitcoin community has made zero effort to be introspective about the impact it has on people who just want to play games or whatever. Or even power usage in general.
Bitcoin is such a weird phase of tech history in that its completely counterintuitive to altruism. I always imagine the Internet wanting to try and always move towards a better, more utilitarian future and benefit the users in a collective sense, but Bitcoin doesn't seem to be about that anymore.
