Now I'm no lawyer nor taxman, and know not a lot of laws in the US, but judging only by the contents of this press release, it seems they were charged with not disclosing that the sales were for cryptocurrency mining, not for doing the business in the first place.
Which begs the question, does Nvidia have a responsibility to know exactly what their equipment is being used for, no matter if that activity is legal or not? Seems they would have to add a mandatory question asking "What are you gonna use this GPU for?" every time they sell a GPU, which seems weird (to me).
Which begs the question, does Nvidia have a responsibility to know exactly what their equipment is being used for, no matter if that activity is legal or not? Seems they would have to add a mandatory question asking "What are you gonna use this GPU for?" every time they sell a GPU, which seems weird (to me).