Of course,
demand for GPUs will likely decrease as Bitmain and other cryptocurrency
mining hardware manufacturers develop ASICs for more Proof - of - Work (PoW) hashing algorithms and
Ethereum begins its transition to Proof - of - Stake (PoS).
Ken Research in its latest study, Global Cryptocurrency Market by Market Capitalization of Major Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin,
Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Dash, Litecoin, Monero, NEM and Others), by
Mining Facilities and by Use of Bitcoin — Outlook to 2022, suggested that
demand for cryptocurrency in the market will grow manifold in the future years albeit with restrictive government policies to consider the digital currencies as a legal tender.
The
demand for these pixilated fuzzballs is so high that, at peak hype, they accounted for an estimated 20 % of the
Ethereum mining community's computations.