So TigerDirect now accepts Bitcoin, and they've "partnered with AMD" to deliver "equipment for mining". Anyone want to speculate on how long it takes before TigerDirect has the exclusive release on AMD mining specific graphics cards?
I love how this is announced though and Bitcoin tanks. Maybe TigerDirect bought a shit-ton of bitcoin, dumped to drive the price down, just so they can earn more bitcoin on the sale and wait for the price to go back up. It's what I would do.
-Fuse
Haha, I was waiting for that announcement for awhile! I've told several people on here, and through various threads, that I had certain knowledge AMD was working on partnerships for an entire Bitcoin/Altcoin-specific line. Distributors as well as hardware.
People were like "lawlz you so stupid whatever". I said.. you just wait. They have the resources to be #1 in the world for this stuff. People said "bah, they wont be interested".
Well, now the trickle of water begins to descend down the front of the dam!
I don't have knowledge of timelines, but I can say you will see scrypt-specific asic products coming from AMD at some point, as well as "scrypt-tuned" GPU cards. The R9 lineup always seemed to be hinting to me at this, especially with how certain settings unlocked far more scrypt potential in the cards than they would with GPU-based purposes. I think i've mentioned that in a few spots here and there.
Side note, it's good to see age-old tigerdirect getting involved. They're on the break of death, they need revitalization. I made my first online purchase with them back in like 2000, for netgear 24 port switches.
This is one of many reasons 2014 will be another coin-value leap for our world..
