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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Bitmain's new Ether ASIC mining rig may not fix GPU shortage after all

A new Ether ASIC mining rig is on the way, but will it help ease Nvidia's GPU problems?

Cryptocurrency mining rig manufacturer Bitmain announced the pending release of a new Ether (ETH) miner on April 16. The Antminer E9 model is an application-specific integrated circuit chip, which will run on the Ethereum blockchain’s Ethash algorithm.

No official release date has yet been announced for the E9, however, the machine’s arrival may not be as impactful as first suspected. The rig faces competition in the form of Nvidia’s CMP (Cryptocurrency Mining Processor) range of GPUs, designed specifically for crypto mining. Meanwhile, Ethereum’s scheduled move away from proof-of-work towards a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism could mean the E9’s utility is short-lived.

Nvidia recently announced that its CMP range was expected to rake in $150 million in profits in the first quarter of the year — three times more than the firm had originally anticipated.

Despite the apparent booming popularity of its crypto-specific graphics cards, Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress said on an investors call this week that the company expected its GPU shortage to continue for the rest of the year, despite increasing supply.

“We expect demand to continue to exceed supply for much of this year [...] We will see supply continue to increase throughout this quarter as well as throughout the year,” Kress said, as reported by The Verge.

Nvidia has struggled to meet demand for GPUs from its core gaming customer base for some time, as would-be miners gobbled up cards to mine Ether and other cryptocurrencies. The phenomenon of Nvidia’s supply shortage first emerged in late 2017 as the bull run of that year attracted more people toward crypto mining. After cooling off somewhat in the intervening years, the GPU shortage emerged once again in 2020 and shows no signs of abating.

Nvidia also announced on April 15 the launch of a new anti-crypto mining version of the RTX 3060. Earlier this year, the firm launched the RTX 3060 graphics card with a built-in limiter which made it less than half as effective when mining cryptocurrency, as part of its efforts to separate gaming and mining demand.

Within days hackers had been rumored to have bypassed the mining limiter, and just a few days later still, Nvidia shot itself in the foot by releasing an official driver update which unintentionally removed the limiter by itself.

The new version of the RTX 3060 will reportedly retain the same name and branding, but will see the faulty driver replaced completely, reports TechRadar.

While Bitmain’s release of the E9 may seem a little late given Ethereum’s eventual move to proof-of-stake in the next year or so, the limited time left to mine ETH could also result in a sharp demand spike, as miners seek to accumulate as much ETH as possible before the changeover.

We asked Nvidia if it expected the release of the E9 to help ease its GPU shortage by diverting demand, or, whether the company viewed the rig as competition for its CMP range. This article will be updated should Nvidia reply.

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