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Gamers Can Mine Crypto With Their GPUs, Arthur Hayes Says

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According to Arthur Hayes, your gaming PC could soon have a second job – earning cryptocurrency while you’re not playing games. He believes the graphics cards already sitting in people’s homes could help power artificial intelligence. The BitMEX co-founder’s latest venture, Flop Labs , wants to turn spare computing power into a source of income. Now, a developer has shown that the idea can work on a single gaming PC. On November 8, Hayes shared a demonstration of FLOP mining running on an Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics card. The developer reported completing 12 AI processing sessions without failure and published a free Windows setup guide . The experiment suggests gamers could participate without renting expensive data-center hardware. How Could Gamers Actually Earn Crypto? The idea is relatively simple.

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