<story><title>GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken</title><url>https://videocardz.com/newz/pc-watch-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-restrictions-have-been-broken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Voloskaya</author><text>&amp;quot;The GPU maker seemed confident that its restrictions couldn’t be defeated, even claiming it wasn’t just a driver holding back performance. “It’s not just a driver thing,” said Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia’s head of communications, last month. “There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter.”&amp;quot;[1]&lt;p&gt;Funny how it turned out to just be a driver thing.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;22333544&amp;#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-rate-limit-unlock-driver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;22333544&amp;#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken</title><url>https://videocardz.com/newz/pc-watch-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-restrictions-have-been-broken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ccmcarey</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also the fact that a few days ago Nvidia released a signed driver that disabled the restrictions [1] _by accident_. But now that the signed driver is out, anyone can just revert to that at any time and mine whatever they want.&lt;p&gt;Fantastic failure to a flawed endeavour.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;22333544&amp;#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-ethereum-mining-rate-limit-unlock-driver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;22333544&amp;#x2F;nvidia-rtx-3060-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>