Sapphire is set to launch an AMD RX 570 graphics card with 16GB of memory for cryptocurrency miners of an obscure, Harry Potter based cryptocurrency: Grin. Founded by He Who Shall Not Be Named, Grin utilises the MimbleWimble blockchain technology and favours large pools of memory over processing power.

I’m not exactly sure what’s happening to society, but apparently our next hope for decentralised currency was thought up by an anonymous spectre calling themselves ‘Tom Elvis Jedusor” – or canonically ‘Je suis Voldemort’ to you squibs and muggles. Despite the lunacy of it all, this privacy-centric, lightweight crypto looks to have convinced Sapphire’s VP of marketing, Adrian Thompson, that GPU mining is making a comeback in a big way.

While the most well-known amalgamations of cryptocurrencies utilise a GPU’s brute compute power to get the job done, and mine precious rewards, Grin is a little different. While its Cuckatoo algorithm is still ASIC-friendly, that is, it will inevitable be scalable to large mining-machine farms, the Cuckaroo algorithm favours CPU and GPU mining. Seriously, you’re killing me here, miners. Cuckaroo?!