Nvidia’s LHR Effort To Stop Ethereum Miners Was A Failure, Reveals Report

Nvidia’s LHR Effort To Stop Ethereum Miners Was A Failure, Reveals Report

A report reveals that Nvidia’s efforts to stave off Ethereum miners from using their GPUs for mining was apparently a failure. Nvidia’s LHR Couldn’t Stop Miners From Mining Ethereum As per a report from PCMag, it seems Nvidia’s LHR-version graphics cards weren’t sufficient to hold off miners from mining ETH on them. The “Lite Hash […]


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