how cryptocurrencies are affecting the gaming community

The raging prices of cryptocurrencies have led to an increase in demand for GPU mining equipments thus leading to shortage of supply for PC gaming users. The subsequent rise in prices of GPU equipment is directly affecting alot of PC gamers around the globe.

Recently, there has been an increase in the value of cryptocurrencies that led to a surge in the prices of GPUs that is Graphics Processing Units. The reason behind this cause is that the cryptocurrency miners are making a lot of card purchasing. The rising buy up is to gain access to the high powered chips of the cards that create a major retail shortage of these GPUs.

This situation is now affecting 1.22 billion gamer and it is said to climb to a 1.4 billion by 2020 , and with games evolving and demening more processing power the price is only said to go one way and we know wich way that is
what do you think of this issue ? is it a good thing a bad thing ? and tell us what GPU do you have and at what price did u get it :D thank you !