NVIDIA removed the restrictions on the mining for mining on its video cards – Bits Media

NVIDIA video chip manufacturer limited mining on its video cards at the beginning 2021 of the year, However, now the company decided to remove restrictions from new drivers.

The decision to limit the hashrate on video cards was made against the background of the excitement demand for Nvidia video accelerators - miners used them for eth production. Covid-19 pandemic led to a large-scale shortage of semiconductor crystals, Therefore, video cards became deficiency, And the prices for them have risen significantly. In an attempt to solve the problem, the company switched to the release of video cards with the LHR prefix in the title, on which the hashReite programmatically limited when mining cryptocurrencies.

In mid-September, Ethereum switched to the Proof-Of-Stake consensus algorithm, So now it is impossible to extract ETH using video cards. Besides, The fall of the cryptocurrency market significantly influenced the demand of miners on video cards. AND, it seems, NVIDIA decided to disable the restriction of the hashReit in its products - in the new version of the driver, even the LHR device began to issue full power when mining. At the same time, the official announcement of the removal of restrictions from the company has not yet followed.

Previously reported, that after the transfer of the Ethereum to the Proof-OF-STAKE, the Chinese market of video accelerators collapsed-their sales reached the lowest level in history.