Cryptominers are selling used GPUs as new with repainted VRAM chips

[Redaktion]

Brazilian YouTuber Iskandar Souza and GPU rapair specialist Paulo Gomes expose a new scheme involving used mining GPUs sold as new from Chinese online retailers. In order to hide the yellow tint on VRAM, cryptominers are now repainting the chips complete with realistic-looking serial numbers.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Cryptominers-are-selling-used-GPUs-as-new-with-repainted-VRAM-chips.685588.0.html

[Indiana]

Whoever coined the word 'scalper' should be literally scalped and made to promise to never do it again.

It is an actual word that has had an actual meaning for who knows how long and has nothing to do with selling at an inflated price.

Nobody is hunting anyone. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a single graphics card. And nobody is making a trophy of you because of your own voluntary actions.

This is like shader programs that are called "shadower programs" in my language, because 'shade' has two possible translations, namely the correct one and the incorrect one. And they picked the incorrect one.

[binexec]

Whoever coined the word 'scalper' should be literally scalped and made to promise to never do it again.

It is an actual word that has had an actual meaning for who knows how long and has nothing to do with selling at an inflated price.

Nobody is hunting anyone. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a single graphics card. And nobody is making a trophy of you because of your own voluntary actions.

This is like shader programs that are called "shadower programs" in my language, because 'shade' has two possible translations, namely the correct one and the incorrect one. And they picked the incorrect one.

Do you have nothing better to do than making strawman arguments about English semantics on the internet?

[kek]

Whoever coined the word 'scalper' should be literally scalped and made to promise to never do it again.

It is an actual word that has had an actual meaning for who knows how long and has nothing to do with selling at an inflated price.

Nobody is hunting anyone. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a single graphics card. And nobody is making a trophy of you because of your own voluntary actions.

This is like shader programs that are called "shadower programs" in my language, because 'shade' has two possible translations, namely the correct one and the incorrect one. And they picked the incorrect one.

Sounds to me like you are trying to sell your "new" gpus to someone on eBay.

[Billy]

Ethereum transitioned to proof of stake many months ago. Stopped reading after that since its clear you're not good at delivering facts.

[It guy]

Whoever coined the word 'scalper' should be literally scalped and made to promise to never do it again.

It is an actual word that has had an actual meaning for who knows how long and has nothing to do with selling at an inflated price.

Nobody is hunting anyone. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a single graphics card. And nobody is making a trophy of you because of your own voluntary actions.

This is like shader programs that are called "shadower programs" in my language, because 'shade' has two possible translations, namely the correct one and the incorrect one. And they picked the incorrect one.

New to the English language I see.
Words meanings can evolve over time. Where a term once meant one thing traditions evolving can change the use of a term or word.  That is the core of a living language. New words can birth and old ones can be repurposed.