Taiwanese hardware manufacturer ASUS has announced a strategic partnership with a software developer for mining Quantumcloud. The company has already started development of a new market, urging the owners of its gaming graphics cards use them to generate cryptocurrency during “downtime”. Users will be able to withdraw your profits into Fiat via PayPal or WeChat.

In a press release published on Hexus, not specified, does ASUS keep part of the profits in their favor or to set fees when the withdrawal amounts. On the website Quantumcloud is emphasized that the payments depend on the amount of capacity that has been allocated for mining. On the basis of presented in the same section of the estimates, month graphics processor, comparable in power with the GTX 1070 generates the number of native tokens Quantumcloud worth about $10. Under certain conditions users will receive bonuses.

However, both companies stress that participation in the initiative does not guarantee an unconditional income generation and encourage users to take responsibility for their own energy costs. As a factor of exclusion of liability Quantumcloud indicated the General state of the cryptocurrency market.

The development of new market ASUS had a General decline in popularity of GPU mining in connection with the dominance of ASIC assemblies in aggregate production and a sharp decline in the total capitalization of cryptocurrency, which made mining unprofitable. However, the main competitors of ASUS, also focused on gamers — AMD and Nvidia continue to produce graphics cards, and separate devices specially designed for this activity.