"Huang Jenxun is unkind and unjust"! The mining limit was 100% cracked, the price of the graphics card rose in response, and netizens were angry

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Broken, when they woke up, the "wait party" found that the price of the graphics card in the shopping cart had risen again.

The 3080TI has risen the most, about 400% higher than yesterday, and the 3060TI and 3070TI have also risen by 100-300.

Ah this, say good "you, me, 200" ??? (You don't buy, I don't buy, tomorrow will drop 200)

Quickly checked the news, it was actually Nvidia graphics card restriction mining hash lock was completely cracked.

This time, the RTX 30 series fell almost entirely, recovering 100% of the computing power.

According to the screenshot released by the cracking team Nichesh, 3080TI has recovered 120MH/s, which is consistent with the unlocked data, allowing miners to get more revenue.

As the news spread, sharp-eyed netizens found that some merchants had taken action.

First out of stock to remove from the shelves, and then collective price increase, a set of basic operations have been very skilled.

At this point, many players who were still hesitant yesterday are still waiting for the 618 players to directly explode.

To say that Nvidia's hashrate lock has been upgraded many times since its launch, but driven by interests, major mining teams such as Nicehash, NBMiner and so on perseverance to try to crack.

This time it was completely cracked, and it can only be said that it is:

What should come is coming.

This lock, it has never locked well

This complete crack was first cracked by QuickMiner's NiceHash team.

The RTX 30 Series graphics cards have recovered 100% mining power except for the 3050 and 3080 12G versions with the latest upgraded locks.

Subsequently, another cracking team, NBMiner, also quickly followed, also 100% cracked.

Miners have tested a variety of graphics cards, and the cracking is effective.

Nvidia's LHR mining power lock, the full name Lite Hash Rate, is mainly aimed at the mining efficiency of Ethereum.

LHR first launched the new RTX 3060 last March, officially claiming to be to alleviate the fact that gamers can't buy cards.

At the time, Nvidia PR spokesperson Bryan Del Rizzo also publicly assured:

Mining restrictions are done by a combination of drivers, BIOS, and chips and are difficult to remove easily.

However, an embarrassing scene was staged shortly after the launch, and the internal staff of NVIDIA accidentally posted the unlocked version of the code on the test driver.

By the time the problem was found and the drive was removed, it was too late, and various backups were circulated everywhere on the Internet, and the mining restrictions quickly went bankrupt.

The original price of 2499 yuan RTX 3060, the highest price in April last year exceeded 8000 yuan.

By May, Nvidia added an upgraded LHR lock to more 30 graphics cards, which claimed to be more difficult to crack.

But under the siege of the mining team, the lock only lasted for 3 months before it unlocked 70% of the hashrate.

So far, the efforts of algorithmic and NVIDIA hard work have continued despite encountering difficulties, and another strange force has emerged.

A while ago, the legendary hacking group $Lapsus, which made a lot of noise, hacked into Nvidia's servers and their main appeal was also to unlock the LHR lock.

With the $Lapsus boss arrested by the police, threatening Nvidia's proactive unlocking with leaked confidential data was lost.

However, the forces on the side of cracking the algorithm have made new progress at this time.

……

Up to now, it is still a few days away from the 30 series to fully upgrade the LHR hashrate lock, and finally the LHR is still 100% cracked.

When the initial version of LHR of 3060 was leaked from NVIDIA, it coincided with the release of the new RX 6700 XT by rival AMD, which was roughly the same as the mining computing power after the 3060 was unlocked.

At that time, some people suspected that it was not NVIDIA who deliberately leaked it for the 3060 sales?

The timing of this crack is equally sensitive, and there are also some conspiracy theories.

From the perspective of mining, may this year is the original upgrade of Ethereum 2.0, no longer use the time of mining mode, but this upgrade was announced to be postponed, giving Ethereum mining a wave of life.

Judging from the cycle of graphics card replacement, it is the time when the 30 series cannot be sold, and the 40 series is not far from being listed.

Looking at the stock market, the SEC just fined Nvidia $5.5 million for failing to disclose the impact of cryptocurrency mining revenue growth on the gaming business, and Nvidia shares have continued to decline for a month.

Some people suspect that the progress of cracking has been stalled for a long time, and this time suddenly the two major organizations are updated at the same time, and it seems that there is also some catnip.

However, these are ultimately catching wind and shadows, and there is no conclusive evidence.

But in any case, the follow-up effects of this LHR being completely cracked are real.

Is the mine booming again, or is the mine accident accelerating?

When such news came, Baidu Tieba graphics card bar was already in mourning.

Zhihu Answerer @ Li Mingyang also analyzed that:

Once the tool is made public, it will inevitably affect the price of LHR graphics cards.

He also pointed out that the wave of NiceHash operations can only be said to be the first time to be made public, and large miners have paid for similar tools.

In fact, this wave is to ship to the big miners, scatter the card to the small miners to take over, in preparation for upgrading the 40 series, some graphics card dealers can also untie the set.

Well, it's already going up...

Foreign netizens are also worried about the price of graphics cards, and some people directly offer advice: don't buy, don't buy anything.

There are also netizens who directly give the break defense, indicating that the mine owner I thank your whole family, a good graphics card into a pyramid scheme.

Huang Jenxun, you are not benevolent and unjust... This time the graphics card just began to drop, the computing power was directly broken, Lao Huang estimated to sit at home counting money and laughing.

However, many netizens also feel that this wave is accelerating is playing.

Cracking the great good, the computing power of the whole network soared, the price of the currency fell, and soon the income was not enough for electricity, accelerating the mining disaster.

That is not better, there are also profiteers in the province who fool Xiao Bai and say that the lock card cannot be mined. Now 100% mine card.

In short, you, I, 200, fly, understand? (Manual Dog Head)

Finally, finally, a mouthful of 40 series graphics cards.

According to the convention, NVIDIA's new graphics card will be launched in the third quarter, but there is also news that the 40 series will be postponed to 2023 this time, and the Super version of the 30 series will be released this year.

News of AMD's three new 6X50XT models has also been exposed, and even Intel's Arc series desktop graphics have recently been launched.

So this time, it is suitable to take advantage of the NVIDIA 30 series has not risen too much directly to "go down the mountain", wait for a wave of 618, or endure until the new product is listed?

Feel free to leave your opinion in the comments section.~

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