Ennis says that Hut 8 has got “the Ferrari of GPUs.”According to the VP, US tech giant NVIDIA didn't even allow the company to disclose what GPU model they received, because only three customers got globally.
“We can easily pivot, and mine the next most profitable GPU-based network if we wanted to, or get into some of the use cases that we're looking at, like node infrastructure management, perhaps even supporting some of the pools,” she said.
Ethereum is expected to transition from the proof-of-work (PoW)consensus mechanism, now also used by BTC, to PoS this year. However, this move was already delayed multiple times. In either case, when/if it happens, this would leave ETH miners with a lot of computational power they could dedicate to another blockchain that is friendly to GPU-powered mining rigs.