Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by herendin2 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:13PM (#26189612)

Nvidia is effectively incentivizing the cracking of their driver and firmware security signing with millions of dollars. Because a person who cracks it can build a more profitable mining farm

It's a sort of accidental bug bounty and I wonder if Nvidia have really thought this through?

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by Tepix on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:17AM (#26192325)

If you crack it, you haven't found a bug though. You managed to do a bit of circumvention.

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by herendin2 on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:23PM (#26196924)

I'd see locked firmware as a bug. Nvidia probably wouldn't agree.

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by undersuit on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:00AM (#26202006)

Plenty of Nvidia Linux users will accept the "patch" regardless I think.

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