Nvidia’s anti-Ethereum Mining Lock is a Joke, and we aren’t laughing
Nvidia’s anti-Ethereum Mining Lock is a Joke, and we aren’t laughing
Nvidia’s Geforce 470.05 beta driver was distributed to developers without including their cryptocurrency mining lock, allowing RTX 3060 users to achieve the GPU’s full Ethereum mining potential. This has been confirmed by Computerbase.de and HardwareLuxx, who both revealed that Nvidia’s mining lock could be bypassed using this driver without any tweaks to their graphics cards.Â
Yes, Nvidia broke its own cryptocurrency mining lock. Nvidia claimed that the RTX 3060’s crypto-limiter “cannot be hacked”, but that doesn’t mean that their anti-crypto tool is immune to the company’s carelessness. Nvidia’s anti-Ethereum mining lock is a joke, and we aren’t laughing.Â
Nvidia can’t fix this
Nvidia’s Geforce 470.05 Developer driver is already available online, and it can allow RTX 3060 GPUs to mine Ethereum without any restrictions. Nvidia made bold claims about its anti-Ethereum and pro-gamer mining lock, and those claims are now worthless.Â
Nvidia locked the door, boasted about how secure it was and then forgot to take the key out of the lock. Nvidia was careless, and they only have themselves to blame for this issue. If creating their mining lock was a pro-gamer move, providing miners with the means to bypass it is an anti-gamer move, even if it was accidental.Â
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(Image from HardwareLuxx of an RTX 3060 mining Ethereum unrestricted)
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