Nvidia: nice intentions ? Think again...

[Godeau]

That didn't last very long, did it?

GeForce RTX 3060 hashrate restriction bypassed by miners
by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/10/2021 03:39 PM | source: hardware.info | 36 comment(s)

A week or two ago prior to the GeForce RTX 3060 launch, NVIDIA made it clear it would implement a hashrate limiter against cryptocurrency mining. That raised some questions and Nvidia explained it was BIOS and driver restricted.

As it now turns out, miners might have found a way to bypass the restriction, likely through a modified driver. If that is the case, then it bodes bad news for NVIDIA's upcoming products as well. On Twitter (iLeakVN), Chinese developers managed to bypass the restriction. Check out the below screenshot. You can see eight RTX 3060 graphics cards each reaching a hashrate of roughly 45 MH/s in the Dagger HashiMoto algorithm

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/geforce-rtx-3060-hashrate-restriction-bypassed-by-miners.html

 

[soltrdc]

Well... Haha. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[CI]

That didn't last very long, did it?


https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/geforce-rtx-3060-hashrate-restriction-bypassed-by-miners.html

They have updated:

Update: I need to make a side note here. As it turns out NVIDIA's protection specifically is aimed at Ethereum, it is very possible that we're simply looking at another cryptocurrency there, which could/would fall outside the protection.

Update 2: The crypto being mined likely is Conflux / Octopus, and not Etherium. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060's Etherium mining capacity still would sit around 25MH/s.

Interesting cat and mouse game going on here.

 

[soltrdc]

DaggerHash mines Ethereum, not sure what they are really talking about other crypto.

My guess is Guru3D were "contacted" by NVidia after their initial posting of the article.

 

[Charlie_Zhan]

DaggerHash mines Ethereum, not sure what they are really talking about other crypto.

My guess is Guru3D were "contacted" by NVidia after their initial posting of the article.

yes DAG is used for mining ETH. which apparently is the only mining algorithm that nvidia nerfed.

but the pic in the article didn’t show the cards hashing using DAG algorithm at all, people see the pic and straight away assumed it was DAG and nvidia’s unhackable limiter has been hacked..

turns out those cards were actually using Octopus algorithm to mine CFX, which again, is not hash limited by nvidia.

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[soltrdc]

So the bottom line is the limiter doesn't stop people from using the cards to mine crypto?

 

[Charlie_Zhan]

So the bottom line is the limiter doesn't stop people from using the cards to mine?

only limits hash rate for mining ETH. people have tried using the 3060 to mine other altcoins and so far Octopus / CFX produces the highest profit. which is what 3dguru initially assumed was Dag / ETH.

you can see the hash rate of the 3060 on other altcoins from this post below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMinin...&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

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[CI]

Well, looks like the whole thing just rendered pointless and ended in a way not anyone expected

NVIDIA Fumbles, Releases GeForce RTX 3060 Driver Without Anti-Mining Throttle